Former Mossad official Rami Igra on Ron Arad: ‘At that moment, Israel lost the thread’
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Rami Igra, former head of the Mossad’s POW and MIA division, recounts the night Ron Arad vanished and explains why he long opposed the assessment that Arad was taken to Iran.
Rami Igra, former head of the Mossad's division for prisoners of war and missing persons, spoke on Sunday about the disappearance of missing Israeli airman Ron Arad with Prof. Arieh Eldad and Ron Kofman on 103FM, following a New York Times investigation into the decades-long search for him.Arad, an Israeli Air Force navigator, has been missing since his plane went down over Lebanon in October 1986.The New York Times reported that the Mossad abducted former Iranian deputy defense minister Ali Reza Asgari in Turkey in 2006 and interrogated him about Arad, and that Israeli officials now believe Arad was most likely executed in 1988.
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