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


Israel denies Lebanese reports that IDF soldier captured in Hezbollah attack

Official Lebanese news agency had reported that soldier was kidnapped in attack on IDF vehicle on Lebanese border.

Israeli soldiers walk near military vehicles near Israel's border with Lebanon January 28, 2015.

IDF sentences Hamas mastermind in June kidnap, murder of 3 Israeli teens to 3 life sentences

The IDF prosecutor said during the sentencing hearing that Kawasame did not see the boys as human and killed them because they were Jews.

Kidnapped Israeli teens

IDF may get into hot water over possible use of ‘Hannibal Protocol’

The protocol, which the army never officially described, is thought to involve massive use of infantry, artillery and air fire if the enemy is trying to capture a soldier.

Sec.-Lt. Hadar Goldin.

Jerusalem teen indicted for faking own abduction

Shin Bet investigation determines 16 year old lied about being kidnapped by Arab assailants, sending police on frantic search.

Search and Rescue Forces

In first, Hamas official takes credit for kidnap and murder of Israeli teens

Salah al-Aruri praises "heroic action" of Kassam Brigades; Hamas had previously denied kidnapping Fraenkel, Shaer and Yifrah.

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

No Holds Barred: ‘We want Israel to be safe’

Standing in front of Gil-Ad Shaer’s parents, I know that I was in the company of heroes; Moral giants who wanted peace to follow their son’s death.

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

Abu Khdeir murder suspect recounts grisly killing

‘They took three of ours, let’s take one of theirs,’ 29-year-old alleged ringleader Yosef Haim Ben-David tells police.

Muhammad Abu Khdeir

OUT THERE: The mind: An endless container for worry

Since the mid-June kidnapping and murder of Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrah and Gil-Ad Shaer, the worries and concerns of millions of people in this land have come – as Shakespeare put it – “not single spies, but in battalions.”

The mind: An endless container for worry

My eyes flow with tears: Reflections on the murder of our boys

It has been noted that the murder of a person is the murder of a person, but the murder of a child is the end of civilization – the murder of the world.

Funeral for the three kidnapped Israeli teens, July 1, 2014.

‘Those three boys saved the nation’

Thousands gather in ]erusalem to remember Naftali, Eyal and Gil-Ad 30 days after their deaths.

Bat-Galim Shaer, mother of Gil-Ad Shaer, at the memorial service.