Born by on February 28, 1919, in Kaunas, Lithuania, he became an active member of “HaShomer HaTzair” from an early age and, before WWII, was occupied in Zionist propaganda among Jewish youth. In 1947 he was caught attempting to cross the Polish border en route to Eretz Israel and was arrested and sentenced to 5 years in the Gulag plus 2 years in exile. His sentence was served in a camp near Arkhangelsk. Released from the camp in 1952, he still had to fight for a visa until 1972, when he went to Israel together with his wife, also a Prisoner of Zion. He died in 1994.
