Yaakov, son of Chana and Yehoshua Lichtnstein, was born in Jerusalem in 1928. With the outbreak of the War of Independence he participated in escorting caravans between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv In the crash of the “Dudika” mortar fired by his group, he fell on the 24th of Nissan 5708 (May 3, 1948). He was buried in Sanhedria.