The IDF announces it will renew its searches for Guy Hever, an Israeli soldier missing since August 1997, beginning tomorrow.
Guy Hever at 17. The 20-year-old soldier exited a guard post on the Golan Heights and vanished without a trace. (Courtesy Rina Hever)
The army will be conducting “focused searches” in the Golan Heights — where Hever went missing — as well as the mountainous upper Jordan Valley region.
There is no immediate indication that this effort is based on new evidence or testimony. Similar searches have been conducted almost every year, around this time of year, since Hever went missing.
“Over the years, a large number of efforts have been put into locating the soldier, which continue until today, in terms of investigations, searches and intelligence work,” the army says.
No trace of Hever has ever been found, and the case remains one of the country’s most confounding mysteries.
— Judah Ari Gross
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