Remembering Ron Arad

16/10/2016

Remembering Ron

Ron Arad was a Technion student on active reserve duty (“Miluim”) when he was captured.

Arad, a Weapon Systems Officer (WSO) in the Israeli Air force, had just completed his first year of chemical engineering studies at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa when he was called up for reserve duty. On October 16, 1986 Arad was captured by members of the Amal Shi’ite militia after bailing out of his crippled F-4 Phantom jet, over the Lebanese city of Sidon.