Fakiro, Yaakov

Son of Zadok and Marcel. He was born in 1950 in Iraq and immigrated to Israel in 1951. When Yaakov reached the age of school, he studied at the Beit Ya’akov elementary school and then attended a vocational high school in Ort, Yaakov belonged to the Gadna and went to the camps for a year. He loved music from his childhood. But because of the parental situation, they could not fulfill his “demand” for music; So he decided to wait until he started working – and after he finished his studies successfully and began working in a printing press (August 1963) he began to study music and for a medicine he played on his own until he decided to form an orchestra he called “Golden Bells”. This orchestra would play at youth parties and clubs. He was drafted in November 1967 and was a dedicated soldier who helped his commanders and friends and was also an initiator in his work, and what made him particularly noticeable was that he always saw the Yaffa But he did not give his full military service because on September 8, 1968, he fell in an exchange of fire with the Egyptians in Dir Suar near the Suez Canal and was brought to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.