Born in 1947 in Kishinev, Moldova into an observant and Zionist family, he became an activist, in the mid 60s, in the Jewish grass-roots theater in Kishinev; he also organized working relationships between young Jewish intellectuals from Kishinev and Jewish youth groups in many other cities of the USSR to study Hebrew, Jewish history and the history of Israel. Arrested in 1970, he was sentenced at the Kishinev trial in 1971 to 1 year’s imprisonment in a Kishinev jail. He was released in 1971 and emigrated to Israel in 1973.
