In a second message about the tank being returned from Russia to Israel, Netanyahu says Israel is persisting in efforts to find out the fate of the three Israeli serviceman captured with the vehicle in the battle of Sultan Yakoub.
“We are continuing all the time in different ways to find out the fate of all those missing in the battle, Zvi Feldman, Zecharia Baumel and Yehuda Katz, and we won’t rest until it’s clarified,” he says.
The three were captured while battling Syrian and Palestinian forces near the Syrian-Lebanese border on June 10, 1982, and have not been heard from since. Three others were captured and returned in a 1985 swap, including the body of one who was killed.
Baumel, originally from New York, held dual US-Israeli citizenship.
The parents of the three have campaigned for years for information about the whereabouts of their sons, and in 2004 fought an army plan to declare the three killed in action.
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