Born in 1908 in Hotin, Bessarabia, he joined Poalei Zion in Kalmanchi at the age of 18 and was one of the local branch leaders. Arrested in 1941, as a result of his Zionist, counter-revolutionary activities, he was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment in labour camps and, from 1949, to exile. Freed in 1949, he went to Chernovtsi but it took him till 1978 to succeed in getting to Israel. He died in 1991. Remember & Save website