Documents reveal how the state conducted itself in a situation where it had to return soldiers captured by Syria in that war. The insistence on not starting negotiations before a list of names is received, the American mediation, and the anger at the families who pressured the government to return their loved ones.
The families of the missing on the Syrian front have become the main pressure group that greatly influenced the government ministers, and especially the prime minister, Golda Meir. In November 1973, Israel linked the POW issue to the offer to withdraw from territory captured during the war.