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


IDF soldier killed by mortar shell near Gaza Strip border

The soldier has been identified as Chief Sgt. Barak Refael Degorker, a 27-year-old from the town of Gan Yavne.

Chief Sgt. Barak Refael Degorker, the 43rd soldier to die in Operation Protective Edge.

Two more Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza, bringing IDF death toll to 37

Military identifies St.-Sgt. Guy Boyland, 21, and other unnamed soldier as latest fallen on Israeli side.

Fallen IDF soldier St.-Sgt. Guy Boyland, 21, from Kibbutz Ginosar.

IDF: Soldier missing from destroyed Golani APC

"As long as the identification process hasn't finished, and there are no unequivocal findings, he is still alive in our eyes," family says.

The Jerusalem Post

Livni holds emergency meeting with Israeli Arab leaders to calm inflamed situation

'Stop incitement, violence - it does not matter in which language,' the justice minister implores.

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni

Netanyahu unequivocally condemns murder of Arab teen Abu Khdeir

Speaking after police announced that Jews were arrested for murder of Arab teen, Netanyahu says that Israel will punish the killers: "That is how we are different from our neighbors."

PM Netanyahu holds a press conference concerning the kidnapping of three Israeli students

Israel in the Middle East: ‘Long years of struggle and instability’

The security cabinet struggled this week to decide on operative steps in response to the three teens' traumatizing murders. In the meantime, the ground had shifted with the murder of the Palestinian teen.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu speaks at the weekly cabinet meeting, June 29, 2014

My Word: Equivalent to what?

Along with most of the country, I had spent the previous 18 days consumed with worry for the fate of three teenagers I’d never met.

The Fraenkel family at the funeral for their slain son Naftali, July 1, 2014.

Sinai Today: ‘Walking in the valley of the shadow of death’

Rabbi Akiva, Daniel Pearl and our three boys.

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

The national unity myth

Unless dramatic changes are made in the political and diplomatic conduct, more kidnappings and murders are bound to take place.

Vigil for Naftali, Eyal and Gil-Ad

Know Comment: Five minutes

Global double standards, callousness and hypocrisy regarding Israel were on full display this week.

US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State John Kerry.