Born in 1932 in Leningrad, he began collaborating with an underground Zionist organization in 1959. By1966 he was among the leaders of the educational groups, whose members studied Hebrew and Jewish history, also exchanging information about the State of Israel. In 1970, together with the group of Zionists involved in the operation of hijacking an aircraft en route to Sweden, he was arrested and in May 1971 at the 2nd Leningrad trial was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment, which he spent in a high-security camp in Mordovia. Released in 1973 he left for Israel that same year. Remember & Save website
