Eliyahu, son of Leah and Shalom Kriskt (Son of-Shalom), was born in 1915 in Birze, Lithuania, and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1938. At the outbreak of World War II, Eliyahu accepted the call of the national institutions and volunteered for the British Navy. On the 20th of Kislev, 5703 (29/11/1942), he died and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Tel Aviv.