Born in 1940 in Leningrad, he began his Zionist activities at the age of 17 distributing materials about the State of Israel and the history of the Jewish people and Zionism. In 1968 he joined an underground Zionist organization in Leningrad, where he was responsible for the release of the "samizdat" monthly. In 1970 he published an open letter to the West, where he called upon the Soviet authorities to release his comrades arrested for their attempt to hijack an airplane to fly to the West and then onto Israel. He was arrested and sentenced, at the2nd Leningrad trial, to 3 years imprisonment in the Gulag. Released in 1973, he left the USSR for Israel together with his family. He died in 1991. Remember & Save website
