Son of Yonah and Gohar. He was born in 1926 in Persia, where he studied at a Hebrew school, immigrated to Israel in 1950 and was drafted into the IDF five months later. On the 30th of Nissan 5711 (May 6, 1951) he fell in the battle of the Jordan River near the Sea of Galilee and was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Afula.