Career
He was exiled to Siberia in 1925, where he remained until making aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1929. He retained his seat in elections in 1959, 1961, 1965, 1969 and 1973, by which time Mapai had merged into the Labor Party and formed the Alignment alliance. He lost his seat in the 1977 elections, which saw the Alignment lose 17 of its 49 seats.
He died in 1987 at the age of 80.