Gone Without a Trace: The Unsolved Disappearance of Guy Hever

On August 17, 1997, it was just another ordinary morning in the Golan Heights when Guy Hever stepped out of the base, armed. Since that moment, he has vanished without a trace.

A month earlier, Hever had been sentenced to 21 days of confinement for falling asleep on guard duty. For years afterward, the IDF maintained that his disappearance was connected to this incident, assuming the young soldier had fled and was hiding somewhere.

Doubts Begin to Surface

Only with time did it become clear that the story was far more complex. Guy Hever was officially declared missing, and a new theory emerged: that he had been taken across the border into Syria and was being held there.

A Syrian organization calling itself the “Resistance Committees Against the Occupation of the Golan Heights” even claimed responsibility for holding the soldier.

Testimonies and Unanswered Questions

Adding to the mystery, a German citizen living in Israel claimed that while imprisoned in Syria for 12 days, she had been interviewed in Hebrew by a man who identified himself as Guy Hever. Despite such reports, no conclusive evidence has ever been found.

Hever’s family has offered a reward of half a million shekels for any information that could help solve the mystery of his disappearance. In recent years, searches were renewed with the assistance of the IDF and the police. A special command post was even established in hopes of bringing closure.

But once again, the searches yielded nothing.