Israeli MIAs

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Israeli MIA are members of the Israel Defense Forces who are missing in action.

Every year, a state ceremony is held at Mount Herzl, Israel's military cemetery in Jerusalem.

[1] In the Yom Kippur War 301 Israelis were captured by Syria and Egypt, 232 of whom by the Egyptians, 65 by the Syrians and 4 by the Lebanese.

Some Israeli soldiers reported after their release about the difficult conditions they faced: they were severely beaten by their captors, sometimes making them unconscious, while many reported that they were being investigated under torture.

[2] According to Reuben Yardor, a military intelligence leader of the Yom Kippur War, the automatic assumption they made was that all that's known to their captured soldiers is also known to the captors.