Body of Missing Israeli Soldier Brought Back from Syria After 43 Years

Sergeant First Class Tzvika Feldman. Photo courtesy of the family.

i24 News – The Israel Defense Forces and Mossad returned the body of Sergeant First Class Tzvika Feldman to Israel, according to a statement released on Sunday, after 43 years that he was missing.

Feldman fell in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub, during the First Lebanon War in the Bekaa Valley, with Syrian soldiers transferring his body to Syria.

His body was identified at the Military Rabbinate’s Genomic Center for Identifying Fallen Soldiers.