At the age of 17, although having been too young to serve in the Second World War, he became the youngest member of the 43 Group, a Jewish veterans' underground organisation. It fought against anti-semitism after the war ended by breaking up Fascist meetings in East London.[8] One newspaper refers to him as an "anti-fascist warrior-hairdresser", whose aim was to prevent Sir Oswald Mosley's far-Right movement from spreading "messages of hatred" in the period following the Second World War.[9]