Zachary Baumel

Bennett gives Netanyahu location of IDF soldiers missing from Lebanon War

The report added that, according to a security official, the information presented in the document is already well-known in the intelligence community.

The funeral of Zachary Baumel, who went missing at the Battle of Sultan Yacub in 1982, at the Mount Herzl Military cemetery in Jeruslaem on April 4, 2019.
Soldiers loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad forces are deployed at al-Qadam area near Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Damascus, Syria April 29, 2018.

Russia excavates Syrian cemetery, searching for missing IDF soldiers

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu eulogizes at the funeral of Zachary Baumel, 2019.

Netanyahu is gifted Zachary Baumel's tallit

The Syrian area of Quneitra is seen in the background as an out-of-commission Israeli tank parks on a hill, near the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria, in the Golan Heights.

Israel releases two Syrian prisoners in 'goodwill gesture'


Israel to release Syrian prisoners for Baumel remains, names released - report

The remains of IDF soldier Sgt.Zachary Baumel was repatriated to Israel 40 years after he went missing in action.

ZACHARY BAUMEL is laid to rest last week.

Zachariah, the prisoner of hope

Another famous Zachariah, the prophet Zachariah, once described himself as a “prisoner of hope” (Zechariah 9:12).

ZACHARY BAUMEL is laid to rest last week.

Zachary Baumel and growing up as an Israeli

So together, the first-graders, parents, teachers and grandparents sing “Hatikva” because it is our beloved anthem and to honor the return of Zachary Baumel, an Israeli home at last.

ZACHARY BAUMEL is laid to rest last week.

14 Days: Baumel Buried

Baumel’s remains were recovered in Syria with the aid of the Russian Army.

Baumel's burial

How Russia’s role in the Baumel repatriation symbolizes its strategy

Moscow wants to be the Middle East broker everyone needs.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the Russian Army chief of staff at the ceremony of transferring the coffin of the missing Zacharia Baumel to Israel in Moscow, Russia on April 4th, 2019

After 37 year wait Sgt. Zachary Baumel laid to rest

Zachary Baumel is buried in Jerusalem 37 years after he went missing.

Zachary Baumel, after 37 years, is finally laid to rest on April 4, 2019.

Eli Cohen's widow: Deeply disappointed, they forgot about him

The widow of the spy who was hanged in Syria in 1965 asked why she was not informed of the return of the body of Zecharia Baumel, and why her husband's body had not yet been returned to Israel.

Stamp issued in honor of Eli Cohen 370

Did a Palestinian militant group find Baumel's body?

Based in Syria and headed by Ahmad Jibril, PFLP-GC is an offshoot with the PFLP and is violently opposed to any peace with the Jewish State.

Palestinians hold Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) flags, December 23, 2013

Baumel's sister, Osna: “I knew the chances he was alive were quite slim”

The news the soldiers brought her Wednesday, she said, “was unreal.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Osna Baumel, sister of Zachary Baumel

A nation’s embrace

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi eulogizes at the funeral of Zachary Baumel, 2019.

Baumel’s return shows Israel’s commitment to its fallen - comment

What the Israelites carried on their shoulders for 40 years from the Red Sea’s waters through the Sinai Desert’s heat was more than one man’s remains; it was the value of honoring the dead.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-defense minister Yitzhak Mordechai listen to Yona Baumel (gesturing) as Baumel's wife, Miriam, (right) looks on, in 1997