thumb|Empty graves at the [[Garden of the Missing in Action]]
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Israeli MIA are members of the Israel Defense Forces who are missing in action. Despite efforts to locate and repatriate them, their whereabouts remain unknown. Every year, a state ceremony is held at Mount Herzl, Israel's military cemetery in Jerusalem.
IDF prisoners of war
thumb|Commemorative wall at the [[Garden of the Missing in Action]]
In the Yom Kippur War 301 Israelis were captured by Syria and Egypt, 232 of whom by the Egyptians, 65 by the Syrians and 4 by the Lebanese. The majority of them were captured in the first stage of that war. Some Israeli soldiers reported after their release about the difficult conditions they faced: they were severely beaten by their captors, sometimes making them unconscious, while many reported that they were being investigated under torture.
Known Israeli MIAs
- Yehuda Katz, an IDF soldier of the 362nd battalion declared missing after the Battle of Sultan Yacoub in Lebanon on June 12, 1982.
- Ron Arad, an IDF F-4 Phantom II navigator, was lost over Lebanon on October 16, 1986.
- Guy Hever disappeared on duty in the Golan Heights on August 17, 1997. One was rescued three weeks after being taken hostage, the body of another was recovered in November 2023,