Missing IDF Soldier’s Grave Found After 78 Years
Private Dov Premat, who was only 17 years old when he was killed in the War of Independence, had been classified for 78 years as an IDF fallen soldier whose burial place was unknown-until today.
As part of an investigation by the IDF’s Missing Persons Unit, it was determined that Fermat was buried in a mass grave at Maoz Haim together with 16 other IDF soldiers who fell in the same war.
The IDF stated that Company A of the 11th Battalion of the “Oded” Brigade, in which Dov served, moved up to Malkiya on June 1, 1948, to replace a Palmach force that had captured the area three days earlier.
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