Exclusive: MOSSAD OPERATION REVEALEDIsrael steps up search for Arad remains

OSSAD last month examined a corpse in a northern Lebanese village to see if it was the remains of missing Israeli pilot Ron Arad, according to a Saudi media report this week.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Monday that the intelligence agency had recently embarked on wide-ranging efforts in search of information about Arad, who has been missing in action since 1986. He was last known to be in the custody of Lebanese terror groups.

According to the Saudi news site al-Arabiya, Mossad extracted DNA from the body interred in Nabi Chit to test if it was Arad’s remains. The news report did not say what the test results revealed.

Al-Arabiya also reported that Mossad abducted an Iranian general from Syria to interrogate him about Arad’s fate. That was first reported earlier on Tuesday by the London-based Rai al-Youm paper.

Mossad agents took the Iranian general to an unnamed African country, interrogated him there, and eventually released him, Rai al-Youm said.