He is most notable for having died by suicide with a hand grenade together with Meir Feinstein, another Jewish underground fighter under sentence of death, shortly before their scheduled executions, and is memorialized in Israel today as one of the Olei Hagardom.

Initially, he was a member of Lehi's youth division and posted propaganda leaflets, but later joined the fighting force.

On March 17, 1947, he was tried before a military court on charges of illegal weapons possession and conspiracy to murder, convicted, and sentenced to death.

[citation needed] While awaiting execution in the Central Prison in Jerusalem's Russian Compound, he met Irgun fighter Meir Feinstein, who had also been sentenced to death.

On April 21, 1947, shortly before their scheduled executions, they died by suicide with an improvised grenade which had been smuggled inside a hollowed-out orange.