Born in 1900 in town Shepetovka to a Zionist family, he wrote poetry from childhood and wrote in Hebrew all his life, even in concentration camp. He was one of the better known writers in Hebrew in the Soviet Union and was known by the pseudonym “Tsphoni”. In 1949 he was arrested, charged with Zionist activity, and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. He was released in 1955 and continued his writing. His first book “Ish tamid” was published in 1961, and the second—“Yoman Ha zichronot” in 1976. He died in 1969 in the Soviet Union. In 1974 his ashes were brought to Israel and buried in the cemetery of the kibbutz “Shefayim”.
