The New York Times: New Details About the Attempts to Find What Rises by Ron Arad
- Two Iranian generals were kidnapped: in the search for silver, the Mossad kidnapped Abdullah Sabri and Ali-Reza Askari.
- Sabri was kidnapped in 2021 in Damascus inside a refrigerator carton, interrogated for weeks and released in Johannesburg.
- Askari disappeared in 2006 in Istanbul. According to former American officials, Shavuot was interrogated for weeks on a yacht, killed, and his body dumped in the Black Sea.
- The Iranian connection is ruled out: the popular opinion in Israel today is that ore was never held in Iran, and that Iran and Hezbollah had no involvement in its disappearance. Sources involved in the case describe intelligence errors over the years, including confirmation bias and "collective blindness".
- Iranian-Hizballi report: According to the secret report, Arad died in 1988 in Nabi S*** and was buried there or nearby. Iran forwarded the report to Germany, but Israel was not impressed.
- The searches now: they focus on Lebanon. Ahmed Shukar, a retired Lebanese security officer who was involved in guarding Arad, disappeared in December 2025 and is suspected to have been kidnapped by Israelis. The main Israeli hypothesis is that Arad was executed in revenge for the death of Shukar's brother in 1988.
- In March, the IDF raided Nabi S*** and dug there, apparently without finding any remains.