The IDF announced that its Administration for the Search of Missing Soldiers has determined the burial location of a soldier whose grave had been unknown since 1948. Cpl. Yaakov Zarihen Hy”d was found to have been buried in a mass grave in Kiryat Anavim alongside seven other IDF fallen who took part in the convoys of Operation Harel in 1948.

The IDF said his burial site had remained “unknown” for decades, and that the investigation to locate it took approximately 15 years before it was finally resolved.