Karkukli, Sasson

Sasson, son of Yosef and Naima Karkukli, was born on 13 October 1948 in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. Sasson was about four years old when the family immigrated to Israel and settled in Jerusalem and completed his elementary studies at Talpiot School. In August 1966 he was drafted into the IDF. The Six-Day War broke out, and on the fifth day of the battles, (9.6.1967), Sasson participated in a battle held in Tel Faher. During the fighting he was injured in the canals and thus died. He was buried in the military cemetery in Afula and was later transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.