IDF representatives have notified the family of Yehuda Katz that remains belonging to the fallen soldier have been located.
Katz was the last soldier from the Battle of Sultan Yaqub in 1982 to be classified as missing in action.
The finding of his remains brings a years-long intelligence and military saga to an end. In 2019, the body of Zechariah Baumel was returned to Israel through Russian mediation.
In 2025, a special secret Mossad mission brought the body of Zvi Feldman home.
Katz, Baumel, and Feldman were classified as missing in action after the Battle of Sultan Yaqub, which occurred on June 11th, 1982, at a crossroads south of the village of Sultan Yaqub in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, during the First Lebanon War.
In 2004, the Chief Military Rabbi at the time, Rabbi Yisrael Weiss, ruled that three missing soldiers should be declared as "fallen soldiers whose place of burial is unknown." However, the soldiers' families petitioned against the decision, and it was rescinded.