Ron arad

Bring them all home: Israel's 12-year fight to ensure every hostage is rescued from Gaza - feature

To celebrate this day and honor those who have fallen, The Jerusalem Post has created a timeline in remembrance of the national struggle to finally bring every hostage home.

 People walk past a wall displaying posters of hostages, in Tel Aviv, Israel, August 18, 2024
Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem gives a televised speech from an unknown location in this still image obtained from a video released December 5, 2025; illustrative.

Hezbollah chief Qassem denounces Beirut's inaction following alleged kidnapping of Ahmad Shukr

Friends of Israeli pilot Ron Arad who has been missing since October 1986 march in his memory in Tel Aviv, on October 18, 2024.

IAF chief hints at Ron Arad op. after disappearance of Lebanese general

Friends of Israeli pilot Ron Arad who has been missing since October 1986 march in his memory in Tel Aviv, on October 18, 2024.

Lebanese ex-officer connected to Ron Arad reported missing, believed 'kidnapped' by Israel - report


I was told there would be 'multiple Ron Arads.' I did not publish. This is why - comment

When Israelis hear the name Ron Arad, they think of a mother and father who waited, of a cabinet that kept trying, and of a society that could not bear the open wound.

Friends of Israeli pilot Ron Arad who has been missing since October 1986 march in his memory in Tel Aviv, on October 18, 2024.

Hamas publishes archive photo of remaining 48 hostages, labeling them each as 'Ron Arad'

The terrorist organization said that "the fate of the hostages will be like Ron Arad," referencing the IAF navigator who was taken captive in Lebanon.

The picture released by Hamas that has reach of the remaining hostages label with IAF navigator Ron Arad's name and a number.

Israeli colonel involved in controversial Hezbollah prisoner swap passes away at 78

Elhanan Tannenbaum, infamous for his Hezbollah abduction and controversial prisoner swap, passed away at 78.

Freed Israeli captive Elhanan Tannenbaum (C) walks with unidentified German mediators and Hizbollah officials to a waiting German airplane at Beirut airport January 29, 2004.

Ron Arad's daughter: History repeats itself, we were also told 'everyone will come back'

"In the last three months, I've memorized the names of all the hostages, read the life story of each one, and felt the hole in my heart that my father left widening."

Missing IAF navigator Ron Arad in captivity after his jet went down in Lebanon in 1986

IDF fighter pilots within their rights to protest reform, Ron Arad's widow says

The widow of the missing IDF soldier hit back against Likud Minister Shlomo Karhi's criticism: "My husband went through hell for this country."

An Israeli air force F-15 fighter jet flies during an exhibition as part of the graduation ceremony of air force pilots at Hatzerim air base in southern Israel

Should Israel's Mossad risk agents to find MIAs? - opinion

If the operation was as “daring” as the prime minister indicated, does the value of the mission validate the risk undertaken by the Mossad personnel involved? 

 FREED SOLDIER Gilad Schalit is greeted by then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Tel Nof Airbase on October 18, 2011.

14 Days: Royal Meeting

Israeli news highlights from the past two weeks.

 Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meeting Bahrain’s King Hamid bin Issa al-Khalifa at the royal palace in Manama, September 30, 2021.

The Ron Arad saga: National trauma or national obsession?

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: One person’s obsession is another’s badge of honor.

 WORDS OF SUPPORT are written on a large flag depicting then-captive IDF soldier Gilad Schalit and missing soldier Ron Arad, in a protest tent outside of the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, in 2010. The trauma over Arad’s fate will continue to resonate.

Ron Arad operation: Mossad extracted DNA from body in Lebanon - report

An Iranian general was kidnapped and interrogated for information on Ron Arad in Syria, and DNA was tested from Lebanon in operations to locate the long-missing soldier.

Hezbollah fighters put Lebanese and Hezbollah flags at Juroud Arsal, Syria-Lebanon border

If Bennett doesn't tell, Mossad operation will be a failure - analysis

Regardless of what actually happened, if Bennett does not reveal some concrete partial success, Mossad's operation will be recorded in history as a failure.

  Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the Knesset plenum in the presence of President Isaac Herzog and Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy on October 4, 2021.