WATCH: IDF soldiers recite kaddish over remains of repatriated soldier

May 12, 2025

In a solemn culmination of more than four decades of joint intelligence and operational efforts, the IDF and Mossad located and repatriated the body of Sgt. Zvika Feldman from Syria, bringing closure to his family after he was killed in the First Lebanon War.

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