Son of Yahya and Salameh. He was born in 1931 in Yemen, studied in an elementary school and immigrated to Israel in 1949. He was drafted into the IDF in November 1950. He fell in a battle in the Jordan River near the Sea of Galilee on the 6th of Nisan (1951) and was brought to rest, He was buried in the military cemetery in Afula, leaving a wife and daughter.