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Corinne, Yaakov

Corinne, Yaakov

Yaakov, the eldest son of Hatun and Yosef, was born on October 17, 1941 in Baghdad, Iraq. Yaakov was drafted into the IDF in May 1959 and volunteered for the Armored Corps, and after completing basic training he served as commander of the Sherman tank in one of the elite units. When the Yom Kippur War broke out, Yaakov was called to his unit in the Armored Corps during the fast and was sent to the northern front. For more than a week he fought courageously and with exemplary dedication in battles against the Syrians, as commander of the Sherman tank crew. On October 16, 1973, his tank was hit by an anti-tank missile near the Syrian village of Mazra in the Golan Heights. Yaakov was severely burned as a result of the injury, and died of his wounds at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, and he was buried at the military cemetery in Kiryat Tivon and left behind his parents, three brothers and a sister.

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