Born in 1939 in Leningrad, into a traditional Jewish family, . he was expelled from the university in 1956 for his Zionist activities which included establishing and supporting connections with ideological Zionists in other cities of the Soviet Union. The group, of which he was a member, was collecting membership fees to cover the cost of the printing of brochures and travelling to Zionist meetings in various cities of the USSR. In 1970, as a member of the group that planned to hijack an aircraft to fly it to Sweden, he was arrested along with the entire group, transferred to Kishinev, and in June 1971, atthe Kishinev trial, was sentenced to 5 years in prison. He served his sentence in the camps of Mordovia and in the Kishinev prison. In 1975 he was released, and in the same year he emigrated to Israel. Remember & Save website
