Born in 1896 in Slonim, Poland, he was a member of “Poalei Zion” from his youth and up to 1922. Arrested in 1926 for helping a woman escape from a Soviet prison, and also for distributing Zionist materials from Palestine, he was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment. In 1951 he was arrested for the second time for distributing materials from Israel. He was released in 1960 and went to Israel in 1974. He died in 1991.
