Born on June 15th, 1923 in Romania, he became a member of “Makkabi HaTzair” at an early age. After WWII he moved to Chernovtsy and in 1947 tried to leave the Soviet Union for Romania, in the hope of reaching Eretz Israel. Arrested and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in the Gulag, he served his time in the camp of Urallag. Released in 1952, but was not allowed to fulfill his dream of getting to Israel until 1977.
