Arik, son of Rachel and Meir Daniel, was born on Moshav Kfar Zeitim, near Tiberias, in 1964. In April 1988, Arik joined the Israel Police, and served as part of the Border Police. He fell in the course of his duties on the 13th of Cheshvan (10.11.2011). He was forty-seven. He was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Tiberias.