Kidnapping in israel

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

Jerusalem District investigators believe the 20-year-old mother and her children, ages three and one, may be in the Jerusalem area.

JULY 27, 2026|ByALON HACHMON

Israel police conducting an operation, July 13, 2026.

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

Her name, Haymanut, means “faith.” But, dad Tesfai Kasau, 54, told me that at home, they call her “tiger,” because she stands strong for what she believes. She is deeply religious, he says.

JULY 25, 2026|ByBARBARA SOFER

WATCH: Bystanders rescue 11-year-old girl from kidnapping attempt in central Israel

The girl's screams, clearly audible in the final seconds of a video documenting the drama, are heard by passing drivers, who realize something bad is unfolding and jump into action.

JULY 2, 2026|ByMAARIV

IDF soldiers participate in an operation to locate missing Israelis in the West Bank, July 2, 2026.

IDF rescues Israeli Breslov hassidim after they flee police into West Bank village

After fleeing to the West Bank village of Mukhmas, the hassidim contacted Israeli security forces, saying a group of Palestinians had surrounded their vehicle.

JULY 2, 2026|BySHIR PERETS, AMIR BOHBOT

United in tragedy and hope

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

MAY 16, 2017ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

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.

MAY 11, 2017ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

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.

APRIL 30, 2017ByRICHARD KEMP JIM MOLAN, ARSEN OSTROVSKY

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.

FEBRUARY 5, 2017ByJPOST.COM STAFF, ANNA AHRONHEIM

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.

JANUARY 1, 2017ByANNA AHRONHEIM, HERB KEINON

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.

JULY 30, 2015ByBRIAN BLUM

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.

JULY 22, 2015ByBEN HARTMAN

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.

JULY 9, 2015ByLAHAV HARKOV