Naftali Fraenkel

Significant award inspired by tragedy: Herzog presents Jerusalem Unity Prize 2026

The prize is awarded to individuals and organizations dedicated to advancing mutual respect and tolerance who work towards creating harmony in the societies in which they live.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRESIDENT HERZOG presents the Jerusalem Unity Prize 2026 at the President’s Residence.
Gilad Shaer, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrah

Hamas ordered by court to pay NIS 38 million to victims of terrorism

Since the district court's ruling is subject to the Supreme Court's ruling, the victims' families have announced that they will appeal the ruling to bring the matter before the Supreme Court again.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Gilad Shaer, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrah

Families of three murdered teenagers sue Hamas for over NIS 500m.

The lawsuit, brought to the Jerusalem District Court on Sunday, demands NIS 520 million from the terror organization, which was responsible for organizing and carrying out the 2014 attack.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB, ALEX WINSTON
Shlomi Elkabetz in Our Boys

New trailer for HBO's Our Boys, about 3 boys kidnapped before Gaza Operation

The trailer opens with the nerve-wracking phone call to the police by Gilad Shaer as he and his friends, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrah, were held in the back of a car.

|ByHANNAH BROWN

5 years later Naftali Fraenkel's mother looks back

For those who only knew Fraenkel as one of the mothers of the murdered teens, whose kidnapping led to a massive manhunt , she was the pious face of the “Bring Our Boys Home” campaign.

JUNE 30, 2019ByBETH KISSILEFF/JTA
Rachelle Sprecher Fraenkel

Hamas names 2014 kidnapping mastermind as new deputy political chief

The move is seen as toughening the Islamist movement’s posture in advance of reconciliation talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement.

OCTOBER 6, 2017ByBEN LYNFIELD
A Palestinian Hamas militant takes part in a Gaza rally marking the twelfth anniversary of the death of late Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

Narrative Means Strife, Truth Brings Peace

AUGUST 3, 2016ByDOVID BEN-MEIR
The Jerusalem Post

‘Our boys’

A look back a year after the kidnapping of the three yeshiva students, uniting the nation in grief.

JUNE 10, 2015ByLAURA KELLY
Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel (L-R).