Youth Movements and Zionist Activity in Egypt

Discusses: childhood and studies in Alexandria, Egypt; involvement in youth movements, including 'Maccabi'; establishing contact with Israeli soldiers, 1943; visits to Israel, 1945 and 1946; establishing youth groups run by emissaries; roles filled in 'Hechalutz'; Joe Golan's arrest, 1948; his own arrest, on accusation of spying; after arrest, working as secretary for youth movement; tense relations between Egyptian police and Zionist youth movements; reasons for staying in Egypt and not making Aliyah, 1948; own arrest, and arrest of movement leaders in response to Independence War; ideology of those arrested; arrest of Moslem rebels; conditions in El-Tur and Ag-Stap jails; release, 1949; request to leave Egypt for France, and from there to Israel; life in France - 'hachshara', political disputes; Aliyah, 1949, with group of 50 others; dispersal of his Aliyah group; involvement in Zionist group; going to Morocco for two years as emissary, 1952; return to Israel; Kibbutzim he lived in and reasons for moving; Israeli mentality; leaving Kibbutz to work for El-Al in Rishon in hopes of becoming engineer; contact with Zionist leaders.