Born in 1920 in Kovno, Lithuania, he worked as a youth in “Beitar”. He was prominent as a propagandist for Zionism and the right to settle in Israel. After the Soviet occupation he went underground and after the war was active in organizing escape routes from the Soviet Union to Israel through Poland. He was arrested in 1949 and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment, but continued his Zionist activity in the camps. He was released in 1956 and got to Israel in 1957.
