Born on November 4th, 1918, in Kaunas, Lithuania, he was a member of “HaShomer HaTzair” till 1934. When studying at the university from 1935 till 1941 he was an activist in the “Beitar” movement, engaged in Zionist propaganda in Jewish youth circles. In 1947 he tried to cross the border with Poland but was arrested by the MGB organs and sentenced by OSO to 8 years of imprisonment in the Gulag. His sentence was served in Salekhard and in Tyumen. Released in 1951, he still had a 20 year wait for permission to go to Israel which he reached in 1971.
