Born in 1928 in Lithuania, he became a member of “HaShomer HaTzair” during his childhood. In 1947 he was arrested and charged with the intention of leaving the Soviet Union illegally. Sentenced to 7 years in high security camps, his sentence was served in the Ortlag labor camp from which he was released in 1954. Despite this he was not allowed to leave the USSR for Israel until 1973. He died in 1988.
