Yaakov, son of Michael and Nechama Karasik, was born in 1929 in Nahalal. He was a third generation Israeli. On the 26th of Cheshvan (October 31, 1956) he fell in Sinai and was buried in the cemetery in Eilat. On the 30th of January, 1958, he was laid to rest in the civil cemetery in Nahalal.