Memorial services were held on Mt. Herzl today for Israeli soldiers and sailors missing in action or whose remains are beyond recovery. The services were attended by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, heads of the armed services and other dignitaries. They coincided with the seventh day of Adar on the Hebrew calendar, the date which, according to tradition, is the anniversary of the death of Moses.
Among the honored dead were 30 sailors who went down with the destroyer Elath, sunk by Egyptian guided missiles off Sinai last year and the 69 officers and crewmen of the submarine Dakar which vanished at sea last Jan. 25 and was declared officially lost yesterday.
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