Itay Chen, 19, is serving with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and had elected to work at his base on the Gaza border last weekend to get time off for his brother’s upcoming bar mitzvah. On Saturday he told his family that base was under attack. They soon lost communication. “No one has been able to physically locate him – he is not in hospital, not on the deceased list,” his father Ruby Chen, who grew up in New York, said at a press conference, adding that Itay is considered Missing In Action.