Son of Avraham and Chekhla. He was born on February 18, 1962 in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. He graduated from elementary and high school there. He immigrated to Israel and was drafted into the IDF at the end of the year of his immigration to Israel, and on 23 Adar 5712 (20 March 1952) he died and was put to rest at the military cemetery in Haifa.