Jerusalem – The bereaved family of an Israeli soldier who was killed during the Yom Kippur War dug up his gravesite before dawn Sunday, opened his casket, and discovered that there were no human remains, according to Army Radio.
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Tziyon Tayeb was killed as he was manning his position on Mt. Hermon during the October 1973 war. Initially, Tayeb and five others were considered missing in action after their post was raided by a Syrian commando unit. Months later, the army said that it had found and positively identified the bodies of Tayeb and his comrades.
In the years that followed, Tayeb’s family grew increasingly dissatisfied with the military authorities whom they believe misled them when claiming that Tziyon’s body was positively identified and buried on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem.
According to Army Radio, the Tayeb family believes that Tziyon fell into Syrian captivity, and that the military has not done all in its power to locate his remains.
The family has waged numerous legal battles against the IDF over the years. Last month, the High Court of Justice rejected their request to exhume the remains in order to conduct forensic tests that would confirm Tziyon was indeed buried at the gravesite.
Once it became clear that there were no human remains, the Defense Ministry initiated a probe into the matter, according to Army Radio.
“The family’s request to unearth the grave was examined by the High Court, which accepted the state’s position and determined that the body was positively identified and as such there was no pretext for digging up the site,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Office told Army Radio. “The IDF pays its condolences to the family and will continue to tend to its needs to the extent which is necessary
Classic Zionism. The holy Zionists did this in other ways too. Like taking away children from their parents telling them they died. I’m not sure if yemach shemum is appropriate for those responsible. I’ll ask a Shaile
I’m fairly certain that in Israel no one trusts the gov’t, even less than we do here. I doubt that this surprises anyone.
Terrible.
Nebech, what a tragedy.
Now, its time to open the grave of Theodore Herzl as well, and we’ll probably find that there too contains no human remains.
My mother, a’h, insisted at the kevurah of my father, a’h, to look inside the aron for identification purposes just before it was lowered into the the ground.
And maybe they ended up in a lab for scientific research as was widely the case.