Overview
- The IDF, which announced the finding Wednesday, identified Pvt. Dov Parmet’s grave in a mass burial at Kibbutz Maoz Haim.
- Parmet was killed on June 5, 1948 during fierce fighting at Malkia near the Lebanon border against Lebanese infantry with armored vehicles.
- A special team formed in 2020 used archival records, witness interviews, soil testing and archaeological surveys to trace his reburial.
- The military says his remains were moved on November 18, 1948 from a temporary Palmach grave on Malkia’s Tree Hill to Maoz Haim with 16 other fallen.
- The army briefed his family on the findings and plans a headstone ceremony, while several soldiers from the same battle remain unlocated.