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


Kerry calls kidnapping of Israelis 'despicable terrorist act'

US secretary of state says Washington cannot confirm responsible party for abduction, although "many indications point to Hamas."

John Kerry

Chief Rabbi leads public prayer service for kidnapped yeshiva boys

Chief Rabbi Lau presides over a prayer service at Jerusalem's Western Wall to pray for the safe return of the students.

Prayer service at the Western Wall for the kidnapped teenagers.

One of abducted Israeli teens called police: 'We've been kidnapped'

Revealed: One yeshiva student abducted Thursday night in the West Bank managed to contact police on night of kidnapping.

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

Knesset c'tee to UN: Kidnappers violate Israeli children's human rights

MK writes to Ban-Ki-Moon: "These are not fighters, they did not take part in combat. They are three young teens."

UN building, Vienna

'A master stroke'

Cartoon published by an official Fatah Facebook page applauds kidnapping of three Israeli yeshiva boys by terrorists in the West Bank.

"Master stroke"