Remains of Last Israeli Soldier Missing From First Lebanon War’s Sultan Yacoub Battle Found
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Remains of last Israeli soldier missing from First Lebanon War’s Sultan Yacoub battle found
Yehuda Katz was a 22-year-old tank gunner and yeshiva student when he was killed 44 years ago. The post Remains of last Israeli soldier missing from First Lebanon War’s Sultan Yacoub battle found appeared first on Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Netanyahu: Remains of IDF soldier missing for 44 years retrieved in special operation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that the remains of Armored Corps soldier Sgt. First Class Yehuda Yekutiel Katz were retrieved in a special operation by the Israel Defense Forces and the Mossad.Katz, 22, fell in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub on June 11, 1982, during the First Lebanon War. He was one of three Israeli soldiers who went missing following the battle. The remains of the other two, Sgt. Zachary Baumel and Sgt. …
44 years after the Battle of Sultan Yaakov, Sergeant Major Yekutiel Yehuda Katz, the last missing person from the battle, will be laid to rest tomorrow (Friday) in Jerusalem. The funeral procession will depart at 08:30 from the Kerem Yeshiva in Yavneh on its way to the cemetery on the Mount of Olives. At 10:00, the funeral ceremony will begin in the military section, and the burial will follow in the civilian section. In accordance with the fami…
The funeral of the late Major General Katz will leave this Friday from the Kerem Yeshiva in Yavne, where he studied in his final years before enlisting in the IDF, towards the military plot at the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem. As a reminder, in an emotional circle that was closed after 44 years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday (Tuesday) that in a special operation by the IDF and the Mossad, the bones of the late Ma…
Rabbi Yosef Yaguda, who fought in a tank next to Yehuda Katz's in the Battle of Sultan Yaakov, knew him from his yeshiva days and met him days before the battle. With the discovery of his remains after 44 years, he returns to that difficult night: "I heard a boom, but I didn't know it was the hit on Yehuda's tank"
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