Born in 1926 in Uman, Ukraine, during his service in the army was engaged in Zionist propaganda among soldiers who were fellow-Jews, trying to persuade them to escape from the Soviet Union to Israel. He was arrested in 1951 and sentenced by a military tribunal to 25 years imprisonment and 5 years of disfranchisement. He served his sentence in a Karaganda labor camp. Released in 1955 he didn’t succeed in reaching Israel until 1990.
