Born in Romania in 1916, he was active in “Beitar"prior to World War 2. Then, from 1946 to 1949, he worked as a member of ‘Bricha’ in the Czechoslovak Republic. In 1949 he was arrested by KGB agents in Vienna, transferred to the Soviet Union and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. He spent seven years in labor camps in East Siberia. Although he was released in 1957, he didn’t manage to reach Israel till 1967.
