Israeli tank stolen from military zone discovered in scrapyard

Israeli authorities are trying to work out how a tank was stolen from a military training zone and taken to a scrapyard (Israeli Police/AP)

Israeli authorities are trying to work out how a heavily armoured, but unarmed, tank was stolen from a military training zone after finding it discarded in a scrapyard.

The Israeli Merkava 2 tank disappeared from a training area near the coastal city of Haifa in northern Israel, the Israeli army said on Wednesday.