Barko, Yaakov (Kobi)

Son of Penny and Lupu. Yaakov was born in Tel Aviv on August 16, 1966. He was a brother to Silvia and Micho, and Yaakov joined the IDF on 1/11/1979 and served in the Ordnance Corps. Some time after his release, Yaakov married Aliza. The couple lived in Petah Tikva, where they raised their two daughters, Leahy and Noa. Staff Sergeant Yaakov (Kobi) Barko fell during his service on March 12, 2003, two days after he began reserve duty in an armament unit, and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul, Tel Aviv, left a wife, two daughters, parents, sister and brother, and Jacob’s gravestone reads: “My beloved husband and father, dear to Adam. Muhammad Libi, we will never forget you “