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Friday May 30, 1997

New Arad appeal on his 39th birthday

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Parliamentarians from Israel, Britain and Germany jointly marked captured Israeli air navigator Ron Arad's 39
Members of Arad's family also took part in a special gathering May 22, which linked the participants through a satellite hook-up

Israel has held Iran responsible for his fate, though Tehran has denied having any knowledge of Arad's whereabouts.

The deputy secretary of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, Sheik Naim Kassam, said in an interview with a Lebanese newspaper that the fundamentalist group never held Arad, and, if it had, it would have tried to arrange a prisoner swap for him.

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