Sultan Yacub

Bennett gives Netanyahu location of IDF soldiers missing from Lebanon War

The report added that, according to a security official, the information presented in the document is already well-known in the intelligence community.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The funeral of Zachary Baumel, who went missing at the Battle of Sultan Yacub in 1982, at the Mount Herzl Military cemetery in Jeruslaem on April 4, 2019.
Soldiers loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad forces are deployed at al-Qadam area near Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Damascus, Syria April 29, 2018.

Russia excavates Syrian cemetery, searching for missing IDF soldiers

If the reports are accurate, it may mean that the bodies of Israeli soldiers Tzvi Feldman and Yehuda Katz will finally be returned to Israel after nearly 40 years.

|ByTOBIAS SIEGAL
Yonah Baumel holds a picture of his son Zachary, in 1999

Netanyahu: Baumel’s father traveled around the world to find his son

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled Zachary’s father, Yonah, during his surprise announcement that the young soldiers body had been returned to Israel.

|ByTOVAH LAZAROFF