Kidnapping in israel

Students encouraged to bring red balloons to first day of school for missing child Haymanot Kasau

"The first day of school is always exciting," Haymanot's father Tesfaye Kasau said. "It's a happy day. For us, it's another hard day."

Rescue teams searching for 9-year-old Haymanut Kasau, in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, February 28, 2024.
Protesters block roads in Tel Aviv demanding further government action into the disappearance of four-year-old Haymanut Kasau, July 26, 2026.

Haymanot's parents ask Shin Bet chief to take over investigation 911 days after disappearance

Israel police conducting an operation, July 13, 2026.

Israel Police search Jerusalem for mother suspected of abducting her two children

Search poster for Haymanut Kasau at the Binyamina train station, 2024.

The search for Haymanut Kasau: Why Israel must not forget the missing nine-year-old girl - opinion


Rivlin hosts Jerusalem Unity Prize winners on Global Jewish Unity Day

According to the prize’s organizers, approximately 900,000 people from 30 nations, 150 cities and 200 NGOs across the globe will be participating.

PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN and Mayor Nir Barkat pose with the Jerusalem Unity Prize winners yesterday

IDF seizes blood-money Hamas gifted to family of 2014 murderer-kidnappers

According to the IDF, Hamas distributes funds to the families of terrorists in order to encourage such activity and recruit new operatives.

Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel (L-R)

United in tragedy and hope

A conversation with the fathers of the "three youths."

THE FRAENKEL, Shaer and Yifrach families, with President Reuven Rivlin and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat at the Jerusalem Unity Prize award ceremony.

United in tragedy and hope

Unity exists in good times and bad, but sometimes it takes crisis and tragedy to reveal the common bonds that exist within our community.

The Fraenkel,Shaer and Yifrach families, with President Reuven Rivlin and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat at the Jerusalem Unity Prize award ceremony

Where is world outrage over Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul?

Holding the bodies of soldiers killed in action and refusing their return to their next of kin for burial is a serious violation of the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law.

SOLDIERS STAND next to the grave of their comrade Lieutenant Hadar Goldin during his funeral in Kfar Saba in August 2014

Hamas rejects prisoner swap deal offered by Israel

The unnamed source in the report said that the offer was turned down because it had to be "all or nothing." The source added that Hamas would welcome a deal brokered with Israel as a mediator.

Hamas protest

Mother of kidnapped IDF soldier blames government for failing to bring back bodies of MIA soldiers

Israel's security cabinet meets to discuss efforts to retrieve bodies; ministers to discuss measures meant to put pressure on Hamas.

Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin

This Normal Life: Hitchhiking now and then.

One year after the murders of teenagers Gil-Ad Shaer, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrach at a hitchhiking post in Gush Etzion, the author reflects on the changing norm of hitchhiking.

Hitchbot, the hitchhiking robot, on Highway 17 in Ontario, Canada.

Negev: Kidnappers held man for 230k ransom, threatened to dump him in Egypt

Police are currently looking for two other suspects believed to be connected to the kidnapping.

Bedouin boys walk towards a village in southern Israel's Negev desert

Security Cabinet, Knesset were not informed about Israelis missing in Gaza

Security sources initially kept Mengistu’s disappearance quiet because they feared publicity would raise the number of prisoners Hamas would demand to return him.

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzachi Hanegbi.