During the battle for Smolensk he was gravely wounded. From October until December 1941 Arkadi Katzevman participated in the battle for Moscow. In 1948, along with 14 other Jewish former Red Army officers wanted to vo- lunteer to join the armed forces of the newly established State of Israel. Although he had not officially applied for permission to fight for Israel, in 1956 he was accused of Zionist propaganda and sentenced to imprisonment in a Soviet labor camp. He was released in 1959. He and his family then moved to Poland, from which, in 1960, they immigrated to Israel. In Israel Arkadi adopted the Hebrew last name Timor. At first he worked as a civilian employee for the Israel Defense Forces. Later, following the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War, he became one of the developers of the Tiran tank. He ended this career with the rank of colonel. Arkadi Timor was chief editor of the Hebrew book series "Facing the Nazi Enemy" and an editor of the Russian-lan- guage periodical publication "Words from War Invalids". He was also anauthor of the book My Comrades in Battle and of chapters in the book Jews in the Armies of the World. For over three decades Arkadi Timor was Russian-language military commen- tator for Kol Yisrael radiostation. The State of Israel awarded Timor The Underground Fighters Medal. He was a member of the Yad lashiryon Association and one of the founders of the Israeli Museum of Jewish Fighters during the Second World War.