Born in 1910 in the shtetl of Belilovka, Russia, he became a member of “HaShomer HaTzair” in the 1920s, in the town of Berdichev. Arrested in 1957, he was charged with “Zionist activity, conducting nationalist propaganda among Jewish youth, and criminal connections with the Israeli Embassy in Moscow”. Sentenced to 4 years imprisonment in the Gulag, he spent his sentence in the infamous Pot’ma camps in Mordovia. Released in 1961, he got to Israel together with his family in 1971. He died in 1986.
