Ron Arad has been in my daily prayers for over 15 years now. I can not imagine Israel complete without the knowledge of his passing. His memory defines us.

mystery.
Ron's circumstance, as captured enemy combatant) were dire from get go.
How/when he died would bring closure to his loved ones.
But life is such, that sometimes neither birth nor death are of clear cut provenance.

In personal life yesterday is more realistic with or without hope be strong and kind

ron, we shall pray for your eternal soul and salvation.

your people, and the state that you served with courage and determination,
but which could not save you, will remember you forever.

widows. I guess you were not adopted by a stepfather but keeping the name Arad is honorable to your father's memory. Ha Shem has or will avenge whatever happened to your father. Death is preferable to torture and imprisonment after capture. Look what happened to John McCain and how his captivity in North Viet name turned him into a scumbag. He was a songbird at the Hanoi Hilton and then he dealt treacherously against the wife of his youth who was loyal to him when he was a POW and did not want a divorce. He was an adulterer and married a millionaire floozy in an adulterous marriage. The Egyptian press says John McCain was the godfather of ISIS and the head of the Muslim Brotherhood, so he converted secretly to Islam (BO and HRC were also Muslims and involved in ISIS that was paid by the CIA). In death, John McCain's floozy wife flaunted her breasts to other women's husbands trying to entice one of them to sin at the National Cathedral. Then John McCain was buried next to Admiral Charles Larson, a USNA classmate who said, "It was dangerous to be a wingman to John McCain. It got more dangerous after midnight." That means John McCain was a dangerous aviator, not respected by other pilots and was a party guy and drunk. Unlike John McCain, there is an angel standing watch over Admiral Larson's remains at USNA Cemetery. He was a hero who should have been CNO. His angel is a protection for Annapolis and USNA, unlike John McCain's remains of a scumbag who went to hell.

May you find peace and fulfillment over time, and may your father's courage live on in the annals of Jewish heroes.

We all pray for Ron and the other captives. These heroes are the reason we have a state today. May he return to your family healthy, and may you have comfort knowing what a giant your father is.