Born in 1908 in Lithuania, he joined the “Beitar” movement where he was an active member till 1939. He instructed and prepared many halutsim-(pioneers) for their eventual aim of living in Eretz Israel. At the beginning of the Soviet occupation he had to go underground. After WWII, in Vilnius, he was one of the organizers of “HaBriha”—a movement to escape from the Soviet Union by crossing the Polish border and getting into to Eretz Israel. In 1947 he was arrested and sentenced by OSO to 7 years of hard labour in the Gulag plus 4 years in exile. He continued his Zionist activities in the concentration camp as well. Released in 1956 and came to Israel in 1959.He died in 1993.
