Missing boys in israel

Missing 4-year-old child Younes Abu Ghanem found in Ashkelon following police search

Abu Ghanem marks the second young child to go missing in the Ashkelon area within a month, after four-year-old Yuval Kogan was found after he went missing from Hofit Beach.

Younes Abu Ghanem.
Yuval Kogan is found by Israel Police officers in Ashkelon on July 24, 2026.

Missing 4-year-old Yuval Kogan found alive after overnight search near Ashkelon

Leah Goldin, mother of Hadar, speaks at a press conference, August 5, 2018

Danon meets with Goldin Family about 'bringing our boys back'

Bodies of youth killed in hiking tragedy

'We're going to die,' student texted day before she was killed in flood


Borderline Views: Putting life in perspective

The day that football takes precedence over the fate of the three boys is the day that we lose our bearings on what is truly important in our lives.

The 2014 World Cup in Brazil

June 17: Readers react to the three missing yeshiva students

With regard to IDF targets Hamas as PM says group took the boys,” it is time for Israel to institute the death penalty for convicted Palestinian murderers.

Letters 370

Rivlin: We don’t need to be afraid in our own country

“We are in a war with our enemies who do not want us here," Rivlin tells high-school students in Kfar Etzion.

Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin visits Gush Etzion 370

Netanyahu: Operation to return kidnapped teens could 'take time'

PM threatens to target anyone who attempts to harm Israeli citizens; premier says "Those who oppose terror must do it everywhere".

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

International community responds to kidnapping of Israeli youths

Forty French politicians visited the Fraenkel family; Germany warns kidnapping of three youths could escalate tensions in the region.

French parliamentary delegation visit the Fraenkel family, whose son Naphtali was kidnapped last Thursday night, June 16, 2014.‏

Despite kidnappings and West Bank closures, teens return to hitchhiking at abduction spot

An onlooker would hardly know that a wide-scale search for the kidnapped teens is underway, based on the fairly normal pace of life in the Hebron area.

IDF soldier in Hebron, June 15, 2014.

Watch: West Bank Hamas leadership in Israeli custody

Security forces arrest nearly all of Hamas' West Bank leaders in a third night of large-scale arrests.

Israel arrests speaker of Palestinian parliament

IDF targets Hamas as PM says group took the boys

Security source: We’re assuming the teenagers are alive; Kerry: This was a despicable act of terrorism; Army issues limited call-up of reservists.

Missing yeshiva students (left to right) Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach adn Naftali Frankel.

Family and friends talk of the kidnapped boys

“He smiles the whole time, and is full of joy for life,” is how one friend describes Gil-Ad Shaer, one of the three boys kidnapped on Thursday night.

Missing yeshiva students (left to right) Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach adn Naftali Frankel.

Danino reacts to criticism on police handling of kidnapping case

Insp.-General says that now is not the time for criticism and that all efforts are focused on finding the kidnapped boys and bringing them home.

Police Insp.-Gen.Yohanan Danino speaking in Modi'in, June 15, 2014.