The IDF has determined the burial site of a soldier who had been listed as missing since Israel’s War of Independence, closing a 76-year search for a man who fell in one of the young country’s earliest battles.

Pvt. Dov Parmet was killed on June 5, 1948, when the 1st Company of the Oded Brigade’s 11th Battalion clashed with a Syrian-Lebanese force near the community of Malkia in northern Israel. In the aftermath of the battle, Parmet was recorded as a fallen soldier whose burial location was unknown.

In 2020, the IDF established a dedicated investigation team to locate Parmet’s remains. The inquiry drew on document analysis, witness testimony, soil analysis, and archaeological surveys. It ultimately concluded that Parmet was buried in a mass grave at Kibbutz Maoz Chaim alongside 16 other soldiers killed in the 1948 fighting at Malkia.

Parmet’s family, including his niece, were informed of the findings by Adjutant Corps Chief Brig. Gen. Edna Ilia. The IDF said a formal ceremony will be held in the near future to add a headstone bearing Parmet’s name at the military cemetery in Maoz Chaim.

(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)