Eliezer Ashkenazi (Courtesy)
Police tracked Ashkenazi’s cellphone to the Sharon area of Israel.
By World Israel News Staff
A missing 20-year-old IDF soldier has been found dead in the Sharon region after a nearly 24-hour search, Israel media report.
Eliezer Ashkenazi, left his home in Kfar Saba early on Sunday morning to go to his military base in the Golan Heights.
When he did not arrive on base as scheduled an emergency command center was opened by the police to find the young man.
“Throughout the night we’ve conducted a search for the soldier from Kfar Saba, who left his home at 5:30 a.m. and unusually, did not arrive at the base,” said police commander Yekutiel Ben Yaakov.
Police tracked Ashkenazi’s cellphone to the Sharon area of Israel.
No details as to the cause of death have been released at the time of this report. The military has opened an investigation.
His family and friends said that Ashkenazi did not suffer from depression nor have any problems in the army, website BTNews online reports.
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