Born in 1908 in Brodini, Serbia, he was among founders of “Beitar” in the town of Khotin in Besarabia. From 1929 and until the beginning of the, he was secretary of a “Beitar” branch. After the war he moved to Riga where he was engaged in underground Zionist activity. He was arrested in 1951, charged with Zionist activity and sentenced by OSO (Special extrajudicial tribunal) to 10 years imprisonment which he served in the Lubianka and Butyrka prisons in Moscow and in a labour camp in Inta. Released in 1955, he struggled till 1976 to get to Israel. He died in 1994.