Born in 1937 in Izyaslav, the Ukraine, in 1979 he applied for the permission to leave for Israel, but was refused. He began his fight for the right of emigration and repatriation, hold hunger strikes. Students who wanted to know Jewish traditions gathered at his home, and he taught them Hebrew, Jewish history and culture. In 1984 he was arrested, charged with “the resistance to arrest” and sentenced to 3 years of the imprisonment in the Gulag. He was released in 1987, and after obtaining the permission to go, went to Israel together with his family.
