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After 37 Years Body of IDF Soldier Comes Home By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz April 4, 2019 , 2:40 pm “Then they took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days.” I Samuel 31:13 (The Israel Bible™) Miriam and Yoni Baumel hold a picture of their son Zachary Baumel, who went missing in at the Battle of Sultan Yacub in 1982. Brooklyn-born Zechariah Baumel was an IDF tank commander who, along with five others, was listed missing in action (MIA) in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub in Lebanon on June 11, 1982,...

Moscow (AFP) - The body of an Israeli soldier missing since the 1982 Lebanon War has been found by the Russian and Syrian armies, President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu visited Putin in Moscow five days before he is to seek a fifth term in office in a difficult election. "Our military together with Syrian partners found the place of his burial," Putin said, referring to Sergeant First Class Zachary Baumel.