Son of Yaakov and Margit. He was born on November 27, 1919 in Yugoslavia. He attended elementary school. From 1941 until 1945 he was interned in Theresienstadt by the Germans. He immigrated to Israel in 1948 and immediately joined the IDF, and on the fifteenth of Shvat 5710 (2.2.1950), in the course of his duties, he fell and was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.