Born January 4, 1919 in Kishinev (then a part of Romania) he was, from his childhood until the war, an activist in “Gordonia”. After the war, in 1945−46, he founded an underground Jewish organization engaged in the transfer of Jews from the Soviet Union to Israel. He continued in this underground Zionist activity till 1949 when he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. He served 6 years of his sentence in Ozyorlag camp in the Omsk region and was released in 1955 but succeeded in getting to Israel only in 1973. Died in May 2007.
