BREAKING: PM announced: Mossad and IDF recover remains of Sgt. Zvi Feldman killed in 1982 Sultan Yacoub battle in special operation
Announcement from the Office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
In a special operation by the Mossad and the IDF, we have brought home the body of Armored Corps soldier Staff Sergeant Tzvi Feldman (of blessed memory), who fell in battle at Sultan Yacoub in June 1982 during the First Lebanon War.
For decades, Tzvika was missing, and the efforts to locate him, alongside the other missing soldiers from that battle, never ceased for a moment.
About six years ago, we returned Staff Sergeant Zachary Baumel (of blessed memory) for burial in Israel; today we have brought back Tzvika (of blessed memory), and we will not stop working to bring back Staff Sergeant Yehuda Katz, who is still missing from that same battle.
For many long years, I approved numerous covert operations to locate the missing soldiers of Sultan Yacoub, and I promised the Feldman family that I would never stop working to bring Tzvika home.
His dear parents, Pnina and Avraham, tirelessly pursued this matter but sadly have already passed away. Today we return to you—Itzik, Shlomo, and Anat—your beloved Tzvika, to you and to the land of Israel that he so dearly loved.
I wish to thank the Mossad, the IDF, the Shin Bet, and the POW/MIA Coordinator Gal Hirsch for decades of effort and for their principled, determined, and courageous work to bring back Tzvika and to bring back all of our missing and captive—both the living and the fallen.
The State of Israel and the Government of Israel, under my leadership, are fully committed to this mission.
As the prophet Jeremiah said: "There is hope for your future, declares the Lord, and your children shall return to their own land."
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