Born on the 2nd of January, 1946 in the city of Tashkent, he and his family moved to Riga, Latvia, in 1950 where he graduated from an art school. In 1967 he decided to emigrate to Israel but was refused a visa. After endless requests and refusals, he joined the Dymshits group which planned the hijacking of an aircraft to escape from the Soviet Union. In June 1970, together with other members of the group, he was arrested by the KGB at the Smolny airport. In December 1970, at the 1st Leningrad trial,, he was sentenced to 10 years of high-security imprisonment. He served his sentence in the political camps of Mordovia but, as a result of international pressure and a special agreement with America, he was released in 1979, and allowed to emigrate to Israel in the same year. Remember & Save website
