Nine members of Congress hosted a Capitol Hill reception for the parents of Israeli MIA Zachary Baumel. Baumel’s parents are in Washington to lobby for the release of State Department documents regarding their son. Baumel was declared missing in action after a battle with Palestinian and Syrian forces during the 1982 war in Lebanon.
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