In Nouvelle, Jacob (Paco)

Son of Sarah and Alberto, was born in Casablanca, Morocco in 1957, and immigrated from Spain at the age of two. The family settled in Zichron Yaakov, and in this moshav Yaakov completed the “Nili” elementary school. For one year he studied at the ORT school in Binyamina. Afterward his parents separated and at age 15 returned with his mother to Spain. Lived four years in Barcelona, ​​and when he reached the age of enlistment returned to Israel. His father, who had not seen him in four years, wanted very much because his son was settled, and Vekko did return to Israel to serve in the IDF and be close to his father. In the Artillery Corps, Peco fell during his mission in Operation Peace for the Galilee on the 31st of Av 5743 (31.7.1983) and was brought to eternal rest in the military section of the cemetery in Zichron Ya’akov, where he placed two parents and a sister. His commander, because Jacob was a model soldier, devoted to his friends, comfortable and always surrounded by friends