Fifty-seven Israeli armed forces members are still listed as missing in action, 10 months after the Yom Kippur War, it was disclosed today. Forty-three of the missing soldiers saw action on the Egyptian front and one on the Syrian front. Nine were members of air crews of planes believed to have gone down at sea, two are naval commandos who disappeared after a raid on Port Said, and two are soldiers believed to have been killed by mines in the Bitter Lake.
Although a majority of the missing men were on the Egyptian front, Egypt has prevented continuation of the search for their bodies. The man missing on the Syrian front apparently became separated from his unit in the heat of battle and was said to have joined another unit but there Is no official record of that. When hostilities ended last Oct. there were 406 Israelis missing on the Egyptian front and 38 on the Syrian front.
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