As Wednesday marks 899 days since nine-year-old Hymanut Kassau disappeared from an absorption center in Tzfat, her family and supporters plan to gather for a protest near the offices of the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service.
The young girl vanished from the immigrant absorption facility in the northern Israeli city when she was just nine years old. Despite the passage of nearly 900 days, Israeli police have made no breakthrough in the investigation and possess no information regarding her whereabouts.
With the police inquiry at an apparent dead end, family members and activists are appealing directly to Shin Bet chief David Zini, urging the security agency to deploy its resources immediately to assist in the search.
Campaign organizers emphasize their demand by pointing to recent precedents: the Shin Bet recently established a dedicated unit employing advanced intelligence capabilities to investigate organized crime and weapons trafficking in Arab communities, and the agency also participated actively in the search for Yuval Kogan, another missing child.
Accordingly, the Kassau family is demanding that the security organization commit its technological and intelligence resources to the effort to locate Hymanut. Their message is unequivocal: no more excuses—only results.
