Born in 1911 in Bessarabia, he was a member of the Jewish Youth Zionist organization “Dror Ha-Banim” and was active in “Poalei Zion”. He also worked in the “He-Halutz Center” and in a public kashrut organization, raising money for the “Jewish National Fund” and for the “Jewish Agency Fund”. He was arrested in 1949 for his work in Zionist organizations before the Soviet occupation and was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment and 3 years exile. He served his sentence in Komsomolsk-on-Amur and at Sakhalin. He was released in 1956 and was finally reached Israel in 1966.
