Leon, son of Moshe and Rivka Buczikis, was born in 1925 in Botoshny, Romania and immigrated to Israel in January 1951. He joined the IDF that same year. On the 26th of Nissan (May 2, 1951) he fell in a battle at the mouth of the Jordan near the Sea of Galilee. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa.