Russia President Putin approves the request from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to return an Israeli tank captured during the Battle of Sultan Yacoub during the 1982 Lebanon War.
Netanyahu raised the issue during meeting with Putin in the Kremlin last month, following a request by Israeli Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.
The tank in currently on display at the Moscow Military Museum.
The tank, along with three Israeli soldiers, was captured during a battle in which thirty IDF soldiers died. Zvi Feldman, Yehuda Katz and Zachary Baumel, now defined as Missing in Action, were paraded through Damascus on top of the captured tank.
Netanyahu thanked Putin, saying, “The tank is the only evidence of the battle and is now on the way back to Israel.”
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