The wife of Ron Arad said on Thursday that Israel should not “pay a price” to bring back his remains if the pilot, who has been missing since 1996, is definitively determined to be dead.
In a lengthy Facebook post, Tami Arad denied any Mossad operatives were physically harmed while seeking her husband, after a columnist at the Haaretz newspaper said that it was immoral to risk lives to retrieve him.
On Monday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett revealed the Mossad recently embarked on wide-ranging efforts in search of information about Arad, who was last known to be in the custody of Lebanese terror groups.
“No soldiers lives’ were risked in the last operation in question,” Tami Arad said. “I checked with the most senior officials in the Mossad before and after the mission and I was convinced they are telling the truth.”
“During the years in which they searched for Ron… no soldiers or Mossad agents were killed,” she added.
Arad also said that her family has regularly asked that no soldiers’ lives be risked on missions to find information on her husband.
Read more at Times of Israel.
{Matzav.com}
