Israel kidnapping

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

Screenshot of Yeros Kasau during a Maariv interview on the Education on the Agenda podcast.

Sister of missing Haymanut Kasau accuses Shin Bet chief of refusing to act in search

 The Israeli police pointing towards the inside of a car.

Jewish settler ambushed near Kiryat Arba, forces rescue abducted woman


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

Detained Ukrainian politician’s sister threatens to self-immolate in TA

The politicians’s lawyers have termed the arrest a kidnapping and stated that they had minimal information regarding how it came about.

A Star of David burns in flames during a protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza in front of the Israeli embassy in Ankara

Family of missing soldier slams 'Hamas lies' broadcast on Al Jazeera

Members of the Goldin family say the only reliable information is that from security forces.

Sec.-Lt. 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.

Analysis: Israel wants to avoid giving Hamas a bartering chip at all costs

The organs of the security establishment – be it the Shin Bet, censor, Mossad , IDF, defense minister or prime minister – have repeated time and again the same mistake.

Avera Mengistu

Hamas: 'We won't return soldiers' bodies until prisoners from Schalit deal released'

Hamas claims that Israel approached them through a foreign intermediary to negotiate the return of the bodies of two soldiers killed in Operation Protective Edge.

Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin

Soldier who faked own kidnapping formally charged in Jerusalem District Court

Some 3,000 soldiers took part in the search during the more than eight hours that Asraf was feared missing.

Niv Asraf, the IDF soldier who faked his own kidnapping

Is a two-state solution plausible?

The Jerusalem Post

‘Our boys’

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

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