Born in 1901, from 1925 until the Soviet occupation in 1940, he was a member of the “General Zionists” and worked in “Keren Kayemet” and in “Keren Ha-yesod”. In 1949 he was arrested, charged with Zionist activity, and sentenced to 8 years of hard labor in the camps. He was released in 1957 and continued to fight for the right to move to Israel but didn’t succeed until 1972. He died in 1988.
