Body of Zvi Feldman HY’D, IDF Soldier Lost During The First Lebanon War Recovered

The IDF and Mossad recovered the body of Sgt. First Class Zvi Feldman, who went missing in the 1982 First Lebanon War’s battle of Sultan Yacoub, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced.

The remains of Sgt. First Class Zvi Feldman were recovered from “the heart of Syria” in a special operation, nearly 43 years after he went missing alongside two other soldiers in a battle in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley.

Feldman went missing along with Sgt. First Class Yehuda Katz and Sgt. First Class Zachary Baumel, the latter of whom whose remains were recovered and returned to Israel in 2019.

The battle of Sultan Yacoub was a skirmish between the IDF and Syrian army in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. It claimed the lives of 21 Israeli servicemen, and more than 30 were injured during it.

“For decades, Tzvika was missing, and the efforts to locate him, along with the other missing soldiers from that same battle, never ceased for a moment,” Netanyahu says in a statement.

He says Israel will not stop until Katz is also returned.

No further details are provided on the covert operation.