President Reuven Rivlin responded to the return of the body of the missing sergeant Zacharia Baumel, who is to be buried in Israel.
"We were told with great excitement and great pain about the whereabouts and the arrival of the body of Sergeant Zacharia Baumel in memory of his blessing." Thirty-seven difficult years of painful waiting, questions, and doubts came to an end thanks to a determined and unremitting effort by the IDF and the Israeli intelligence community."