Born in Aleppo in Syria in 1918, Yedid was educated at a high school and yeshiva, before making aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1935. In the same year he joined Betar. He later became a member of the Irgun, and was arrested by the British authorities in 1939 and again in 1946.[1] He also was a member of the secretariat and executive committee of the National Labour Federation in Eretz-Israel.