Born in 1917 in Grodno, he was from childhood a member of “Beitar” and at the age of 18 was already a commander of the Grodno detachment of the Warsaw’s “Beitar”. He participated in the training of “Beitar” members. He was arrested in 1949, charged with writing letters to his friends in Israel, in which he expressed his desire to join them, and with participation in illegal organizations of Zionist youth. He was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison. After his release he continued to fight for the right to leave the USSR and, in 1972, he finally joined his friends in Israel.
