Born in 1920 in Besarabia, he was an active Zionist in Kishinev up to 1940. In 1949, when he tried to cross the border to get to Israel, he was arrested and sentenced to 8 years in a labour camp in Siberia. He served his term in the camps in Karaganda, Komarov and Omsk. He was released in 1954 but could not leave the Soviet Union for Israel till 1973. He died in 1994.
