Born in 1905 in Lithuania, he became an active member of Poalei Zion in Kovno, where he organized groups of illegal emigration from the USSR via Iran to Erets Israel. Arrested in 1941, he was sent to various labour camps in Siberia for 8 years and 4 months. Freed in 1949, it took him until 1986 to get to Israel. Remember & Save website.