Born on the 3rd of Shevat, 5712, in Golmima, Morocco
Fell in the Yom Kippur War on the 12th of Tishrei, 5734

Yaakov, hy'd, was an honor student who took his first steps in the world of Torah in his hometown of Netivot, at Yeshivat HaNegev, and was a graduate of Yeshivat K'far Maimon.

Yaakov, who fell in the Yom Kippur War, posthumously won first prize in an annual contest of the Ministry of Religion, for students who write Talmudic studies.