Akri, Jacob

Son of George and Rachel. Born in 1935 in Baghdad, capital of Iraq, he studied in an elementary school in his hometown, immigrated to Israel in 1951. He was born in Kibbutz Sde-Nahum near Afula and was drafted into the IDF in December 1952. He fell in battle near Bir-Ma’ayan on the 4th of Elul, (2.9.1954) and was put to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, and his memory was mentioned in the book “The Paratroop Wars” by Uri Milstein.