Born in 1905 in Russia, he was a member of an underground Zionist organization in Moscow in the 50s and published some articles in foreign journals supporting Zionism and Israel. Arrested in Moscow in 1958, he was charged with the publication of anti-soviet articles in the foreign press and with Zionist activities. For this he spent more than 2 years in Moscow prisons. Together with his family, he got out of the USSR in 1970 and went to Israel where he died in 1978.
