Son of Yosef and Genet. He was born in 1938 in Yemen and immigrated to Israel in 1949. He completed his studies at the elementary school in Goren in the Galilee, was a tractor operator and worked in the vicinity of Akko and was drafted into the IDF in February 1958. He died of an illness on 29 Av 5719 2.9.1959) and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul.