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Friday, May 30, 1997 | return to: international
New Arad appeal on his 39th birthday
by JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Parliamentarians from Israel, Britain and Germany jointly marked captured Israeli air navigator Ron Arad's 39, Members of Arad's family also took part in a special gathering May 22, which linked the participants through a satellite hook-up
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Israel has held Iran responsible for his fate, though Tehran has denied having any knowledge of Arad's whereabouts.
The deputy secretary of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, Sheik Naim Kassam, said in an interview with a Lebanese newspaper that the fundamentalist group never held Arad, and, if it had, it would have tried to arrange a prisoner swap for him.
Copyright Notice (c) 1997, San Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc., dba Jewish Bulletin of Northern California. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any form without permission.
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