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Ron Arad

Israelis take shelter in an underground parking lot in Tel Aviv during the war with Iran and Lebanon as missiles are fired toward Israel, March 6, 2026 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 8, 2026, 3:13 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 8 — Despite fewer missiles per attack, Iran strikes still a lethal threat
Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian discusses latest strikes, IAF bombing Iranian infrastructure, and a rare operation attempting to retrieve Ron Arad’s remains in Lebanon
By Jessica Steinberg and Emanuel Fabian
A handout photo from Israeli television made available on July 13, 2008, shows a photograph of Ron Arad (left), an Israeli Air Force navigator who was captured after his fighter jet was shot down in Lebanon in 1986. (HO / AFP); this photograph taken during a media tour organised by Hezbollah shows a man standing next to a dug-out grave reportedly during an Israeli military operation at a cemetery in Nabi Chit in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon, on March 7, 2026. (FADEL itani / AFP)
March 7, 2026, 11:27 am
Israel says commando raid deep in Lebanon failed to find remains of Ron Arad
Airman shot down in 1986; Hezbollah says IDF troops tried helicopter landing in Nabi Chit, triggering clashes, airstrikes, with 41 killed; IDF: troops did not face fire; PM stresses ‘personal commitment’ to finding missing
By Emanuel Fabian, AFP and ToI Staff
A handout photo from Israeli television made available on July 13, 2008, shows a photograph of Ron Arad, an Israeli Air Force navigator who was captured after his fighter jet was shot down in Lebanon in 1986. (HO / AFP)
December 23, 2025, 10:19 pm
Lebanon says retired senior officer with ties to capture of Ron Arad has vanished
Reports say Ahmad Shukr, brother of man involved in capturing downed Israeli navigator, was ‘lured from his hometown by two Swedes’ amid speculation he was nabbed by Israeli agents
By AFP and Noam Lehmann
Former and reserve air force pilots, along with others, demonstrate against the continuation of the Gaza war and for the release of hostages held in the Strip, near the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, on August 12, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 12, 2025, 11:29 pm
200 retired and reserve Air Force pilots rally near IDF headquarters to protest Gaza war
Veterans read letter from wife of long-missing airman Ron Arad, warning of consequences for hostages if Israel goes forward with plan to capture Gaza City, potentially whole Strip
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Demonstrators in Tel Aviv protest for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, July 2, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
July 13, 2025, 4:33 am
From raids to ransom: Israel’s hostage policy has become Hamas’s sharpest weapon
Leaders once chose rescues over negotiations. But for 50 years, public pressure and new terror tactics have led Israel to pay ever steeper prices — and that’s unlikely to change
By Nava Freiberg
Joseph Avi Yair Engel, right, whose parents were Holocaust survivors and whose grandson was released from captivity in Gaza, speaks at rally calling for the release of the remaining hostages, in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on January 27, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
January 28, 2024, 4:31 am
Holocaust traumas, modern failings echo at rallies for hostages, against government
As world marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, stories of survivors and rescuers take center stage at weekly gathering; six arrested as anti-Netanyahu protesters attempt to block roads
By Canaan Lidor
Yuval Arad, the daughter of Ron Arad, March 9, 2009 (Uri Lenz/Flash 90)
January 11, 2024, 10:21 am
Daughter of Ron Arad says hostage families must be wary of government promises
Yuval Arad, whose airman father has been missing in action since 1986, writes: ‘We were also told they were doing everything they could,’ urges deal to release Hamas-held hostages
By ToI Staff
Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at an event celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Abraham Accords, in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on October 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 11, 2021, 4:12 pm
In rebuke of Bennett, Gantz says he opposed announcing Mossad’s Ron Arad op
‘I wouldn’t have revealed this operation,’ says defense minister, while defending it as ‘very successful’ and rejecting reports it yielded no leads on missing airman
By ToI Staff
Haredi students pose wih Bahraini education official Mohammed Saleh in the Old City of Jerusalem, October 6, 2021 (Lazar Berman, Times of Israel)
October 10, 2021, 2:40 pm
Daily Briefing Oct. 10 – Bahraini visitors join prayer at Western Wall
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman highlights a Bahraini group’s visit and Japanese diplomacy, as ToI editor David Horovitz discusses Lebanon, Ron Arad, Cyprus and soccer
By ToI Staff
Missing Israeli Air Force officer Ron Arad, photographed by Amal militants in Lebanon in 1987. (Wikipedia)
October 9, 2021, 10:17 pm
Report: Israel seized jogging Iran general in Damascus, freed him in S. Africa
Arabic media claims man nicknamed ‘Sabri’ was a senior Iranian official in Lebanon when Ron Arad was captured there, leading Jerusalem to hope he’d have info on airman’s fate
By ToI Staff
A Palestinian woman walks past a mural painted by a Hamas artist of captured Israeli soldier Ron Arad, in the Jabalia refugee camp on the Gaza Strip. on January 28, 2010. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
October 7, 2021, 10:37 pm
Ron Arad’s wife: If he’s dead, Israel should not pay a price to return his body
Tami Arad says her family wants searches to continue for the missing pilot ‘as long as possible, with the condition of no risk to life’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Russian police guard outside the Israeli embassy in Moscow, on September 18, 2018. (AFP/Vasily Maximov)
October 7, 2021, 1:11 am
Israel said to alert embassies worldwide of possible Iran threats
Warning comes after apparent thwarted attack on Israeli businesspeople in Cyprus, which Jerusalem blames on Tehran
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A female police officer adjust her mask as she guards at Cyprus' main airport in Larnaca, on June 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
October 6, 2021, 5:01 pm
Cyprus said to suspect Azeri man of terror in alleged plot against Israelis
During court hearing in which suspect is remanded for six more days, police reportedly reveal their suspicions; Cypriot authorities said to rebuff claims of Iranian involvement
By ToI Staff
A Greek police officer, foreground, stands guard as UN peacekeepers block the closed crossing point in the divided capital of Nicosia, Cyprus, on March 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
October 6, 2021, 12:00 pm
Cyprus authorities said to believe Iran not behind plot to kill Israelis
Local media outlet reports the alleged hired killer wanted to target Teddy Sagi’s employees, not the Israeli billionaire himself
By ToI Staff
Missing Israeli Air Force officer Ron Arad, photographed by Amal militants in Lebanon in 1987. (Wikipedia)
October 5, 2021, 6:03 pm
Mossad took DNA from body in Lebanon to determine if it was Ron Arad — report
Israeli spy agency examined corpse interred in northern Lebanese village of Nabi Chit, believed to belong to missing airman, Saudi news site reports
By ToI Staff
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