Overview
- After a special assessment, Police Commissioner Danny Levy reassigned the two-year-old disappearance investigation to Lahav 433’s Major Crimes Unit (Yahbal) for a renewed review.
- Detectives are examining whether a recent attempted abduction in Be’er Sheva is connected to the case, with no established link at this stage according to a senior official.
- Security footage shows a child targeted in Be’er Sheva who her family says is the same girl who was with Hymanut on the day she vanished and who previously gave police testimony.
- The family reports the man seen in the footage lives in Safed and is known to them, and the child escaped the attempted abduction.
- Police imposed a gag order on details and identities tied to the Be’er Sheva incident, admitted investigative shortcomings in Knesset testimony, and are rechecking procedures with a request for 150 additional cameras in Safed.