Born 1918 in Tarsikaj, Lithuania, he was an activist in the religious Zionist movement “HaShomer HaDati” from his early youth until 1939. In 1947 he tried to escape from the USSR for Eretz Israel through Poland, but was arrested and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in labor camps. After his release, he worked as a veterinary doctor. His wife was also arrested and their daughter was born in a prison in Vilnius. They came to Israel in 1959 and he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Organization of Prisoners of Zion. He died in 1979.
