Israel kidnapping

Manhunt in Israel after Arabic-speaking man attempts to abduct girl, force her into his car trunk

Witnesses reportedly chased off the suspect, preventing the abduction in the city’s main Sokolov Street.

Israel Police officers seen at the scene of a murder in Abu Snan, Israel, July 29, 2025
Gilad Shaer, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrah

Jerusalem Unity Prize awarded in memory of three kidnapped, murdered teens

 Nine-year-old Haymanot Kasau. The police released the image on February 26, 2024.

Haymanot Kasau marks 10th birthday still missing, away from family

 Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas militants in Gaza, protest outside the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv.

Hamas claims Israel declined to receive two hostages it intended to release


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.

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