“During a special operation carried out by the army and the intelligence services, the Mossad, the body of Sergeant Zvika Feldman was located in the heart of the Syria And repatriated to Israel, “said the army and Mossad in a statement. This soldier died during the battle of Sultan Yacoub who had brought the Israeli and Syrian armies on June 10 and 11, 1982 in the Bekaa region, located in eastern Lebanon along the border with Syria. His body had not been found. According to the army, ZVI Feldman has been formally identified thanks to genetic tests.
🇮🇱 In a joint operation of the Mossad and the FDI, the body of Sergeant Zvi Feldman, in an unknown whereabouts since the battle of Sultan Yacoub in 1982, was finally recovered after 43 years. For more than four decades, Israel never surrendered.
Now, Zvika will rest … pic.twitter.com/Rw7k0Zupzx— Truth 🇮🇱 (@TruthBlue_) May 11, 2025
“The return of the remains of Sergeant Feldman was made possible thanks to a complex and clandestine operation, made possible by precise information and the use of operational capacities showing ingenuity and courage,” added the army and the Mossad. However, no information has been provided on the date of this operation or the precise place of the discovery of the body.
The Intelligence and Special Place Modern and the IDF replied the body of the missing soldier, Major General Zvika Feldman Zal, who fell among Sultan Jacob 43 years ago.
In a special operation led by the IDF and the institution was located in the heart of Syria, the body of Major Zvika Feldman Zal and a settlement to Israel. After disappearing, the Genomes Center was identified to identify the rabbinate of the rabbinate…
– Israel Defense Forces (@idfonline) May 11, 2025
From the fall in Damascus of the power of Bashar al-Assad on December 8 after more than 13 years of civil war, Israel sent troops In a demilitarized buffer area of the Golan, in southwest Syria, at the edge of the part of this occupied plateau and then annexed by Israel in 1981.
Visit Benyamin Netanyahu to the family
Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu went to the family’s home to directly announce to his relatives the return of the soldier’s remains.
In total, three Israeli soldiers had been missing after the Battle Sultan Yacoub. The body of Zachary Baumel, commander of Char of the 362nd armored battalion, had been brought back to Israel in April 2019. A soldier, Yehouda Katz, still lacking the call. “We will not stop acting” to bring back his body, said Benyamin Netanyahu in a statement from his services. “For many years, I have authorized many secret operations to find the missing of Sultan Yacoub,” he added.
After the return of Zvi Feldman, the unity of the army which takes care of the missing research counts three soldiers whose fate remains unknown. In addition, Yehouda Katz, also figures the aviator Ron Arad, captured during a mission in Lebanon in 1986, and Guy Hever, disappeared on the Golan in 1997. “The return of all missing and hostages, alive and dead is our moral and national duty,” said Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz.
This announcement occurs when 58 of the 251 hostages removed from Israeli soil During the attack on the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on October 7, 2023 were still retained captive in the Gaza Strip. “We cannot as a company normalizing a situation where families must wait more than 40 years to find their loved ones,” said the forum of hostage families.
