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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday (4/10/2021) said the Mossad carried out a “broad and courageous” mission last month to try to uncover the fate of soldier Ron Arad.
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Arad, a soldier serving as an Israeli Air Force navigator, attempts to save a fighter plane that crashed over Lebanon during a 1986 bombing mission.
Initially held captive by Lebanese Amal guerrillas, he is widely thought to be no longer alive. He was last heard alive in 1988.
“It was a complex and large-scale operation. That’s all that can be said at this point,” Bennett said in remarks to the Knesset plenary, as quoted by Times of Israel, Tuesday (5/10/2021).
“We’re making further efforts along the way to understand Ron’s fate.”
Bennett said the operation involved male and female Mossad agents.
Arad got off his plane during an operation in southern Lebanon in 1986. Israel believes he was captured by the Shia group Amal before being handed over to Iran, transferred from Lebanon to Iran and then back again to Lebanon.
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