Son of Yosef and Esther. He was born in 1925 in the city of Oujda, Morocco, graduated from elementary school and immigrated to Israel in 1948. He showed a special inclination to handcraft and was drafted into the IDF in May 1949. He died on the fifth of Adar I (8.2.1954) and was brought to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.