Son of Ya’akov-Aryeh and Rosa. He was born on May 29, 1936 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, where he graduated from elementary school and immigrated to Israel in 1950. Shimshon studied for two years in the “Youth Aliya” In the Upper Galilee, was drafted into the IDF in October 1954. He fell on duty on March 4, 1956, and was brought to rest in the military cemetery in Netanya.