Izrail Opatov was born in Tyvrov, Ukraine (USSR), 1916 to Yakov and Roza nee Mekelman. He was a teacher and married. Prior to WWII he lived in Tyvrov, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Izrail was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Rostov,Russia (USSR), Russia (USSR), 1943.
Among the Jewish soldiers killed in WWII, especially in the Red Army, tens of thousands were singled out and murdered as Jews while in captivity as prisoners of war.