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-Updates re recent searches by IDU - Israel Dog Unit

11/13/2016

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1-Updates re recent searches by IDU - Israel Dog Unit
Tuesday night, Nov. 8th 2016 (L’Minyanam) the Israel Dog Unit (IDU) received a request from the Israeli police in Rosh HaAyin to help with the search for a missing 27 year old autistic “haredi” man who resides in a hostel on Etzel Street in Rosh Haayin. The man had left a packing center that employs him in Petach Tiqwa at 9:00 AM on Jabotinsky Street in Petach Tiqwa, Monday morning, never to have been seen again. The man, who never went missing for more than a few hours in the past, was already missing for more than 24 hours when we were called into the search. He allegedly was reported to have regularly walked home, all of the way through the fields between Petach Tikva and Rosh Haayin, alongside the highway 483 and then to cut through the tree-line and fields alongside highway 444 that borders on Etzel Street.

We were told that the police had sent up a helicopter over the area, (but for whatever reason, perhaps the fog, the police were not satisfied with the helicopter search). We happened to be in Petach Tikva when we got the call, having a handful of dogs and some equipment, and needing to pass through the area on the way back to Tapuach, where we could get more dogs, volunteers and equipment. We were confident that Hatzalah and ZAKA would continue with the urban part of the search near his work-place and so we drove through the route near the fields where we later commenced the search with the dogs, at sunrise Wednesday morning. While it was clear to us, that he would more likely still be in close proximity to his work place in Petach Tiqva, we realized that if, G-d forbid, he was wounded and laying in the fields, he would unlikely survive too much longer as the weather was heating up, and without water he would not last more than 3-4 days. We now entered day two, since he was reported missing. Time was of the essence.

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We met with the police officer in charge of the search and with the parents of the missing person at the police station. The police allowed us to run the investigation and to interview the family. Ironically, the police officers placed in charge of any given search are usually the highest ranking officer on duty at that time in the given precinct where the missing-person-complaint was filed. He is often not an expert in conducting searches for missing people and usually runs investigations about theft, rape, murder or any other current files placed on his desk. The officer sat there as I grilled the parents with the relevant questions to build the profile of the missing person and to decide where to start the search. After I finished the questioning, the officer commended us and said that he had learned a lot from our questions and that he had no further questions. The police were visibly thrilled that we were on the scene. They don’t actually search, but at best drive around on the streets or trails with their jeeps. We also shared with them our new technology to manage searches, in the form of a new smartphone application that enables us to interact with all of our dog handlers on a search, where we can watch at the command center the movement of all of our searchers. Each searcher is seen on the screen in their own color. All movements are merged simultaneously with all the people who have searched on a map.

We now had to set out for the actual search. We set up camp near Etzel Street across from a gas station, adjacent to a bus stop not presently in use due to construction. I was excited to start the search especially in view of the fact that we had another unresolved case of an elderly Alzheimer patient who went missing from that exact spot three years ago. While 3 years is a long time, we thought we might be lucky and come across some lead or bones connected to the other case as well to help bring him to a proper Jewish burial. Naturally our priority was to save a life, and find the younger missing man who would hopefully still be alive. However, you never know what we might come across. One of the elderly man’s sons, a dayan – a rabbinic judge in Jerusalem, calls us from time to time asking us to look for his father. We never have much of a chance due to the influx of urgent life-or-death new cases.

Once we set up our make-shift command center, the police together with Yaniv Finkel the Deputy Police Chief of the Rosh HaAyin precinct came to visit us and to observe our techniques, dogs in action and learn more about our proprietary search application.
See below the pics attached. We also brought along our drone to help in the search of the fields.

E.M.F. Our Missing Person Found, Alive-And-Well

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2-GREAT NEWS - A DIFFERENT MISSING PERSON FOUND, THAN K G-D

While we were searching a nearby forest in Kiryat Atta, for Shlomo Didya, we got a call from Kiryat Atta police (It is all meshamayim) that a 57 year old mentally retarded woman had gone missing in none other than Kiryat Atta. Dudi our IDU – Israel Dog Unit Chief of Operations and Haifa Commander, left us to check out the details of the new case. Within a matter of minutes, without exaggeration, I got a call from Dudi to come immediately, he had found the woman. I arrived on the scene before the police to see the family and the police congratulate Dudi, and to see the wonderful reunification of the family, as tears of joy trickled down their faces. See photo of the woman and her brother walking away, after Dudi’s magnificent finding and rescue of the woman who was wandering about aimlessly, confused in a nearby field.
Well, we did not find Didya but we did, at least, find another missing person. We will have to return if we can to resume the Didya search.
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3- NEW MISSING PEOPLE -Please see the two attached files of two new missing people. AND PLEASE SEND THESE PICS ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE ON AND OFFLINE – FACEBOOK AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS

One of the new missing people is from Afula and the other an American woman studying to be a nurse in Haifa, who had a breakdown of some sort and went missing. She has no relatives in Israel and a friend reported her missing when she did not show up for classes. A note of distress was found and it is feared that she might have harmed herself. It is likely that we will soon commence the search for this nurse-in-training later today in Haifa. This case has areas that overlap other unresolved cases as well (Neve Shannan).
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4- It is imperative to understand- Some of these unsolved cases may lead us to Arab terrorist perpetrators

 There are hundreds of serious cases of missing people every year in Israel of the 4000 cases reported. In  many of the most serious cases there is no one other than IDU - the Israel Dog Unit to conduct the search in the depth of nearby wilderness. Some of these cases lead us to areas where there are Arab gangs and tribes and we believe that there may be foul play and nationalist motives that could explain some of these disappearances. When we search there are many mitzvoth involved. Naturally, to find and rescue those who are still alive. However, it is also a great mitzvah to find those who may no longer be amongst the living to bring them to a proper Jewish burial, especially where there is none other to perform the “Meit Mitzva”. And if on the way, we can help uncover a gang of terrorists and solve murder cases, and to prevent future kidnappings and murders, this too, is a great mitzvah. We have already found the body of a man who was shot to death.
Please send the photos of the two new missing people and please consider volunteering for the Israel Dog Unit, where you can learn how to search and also learn to be a dog handler for a SAR search and rescue dog. We have dorm facilities for those who wish to learn and to volunteer.

TO DONATE, much needed CONTRIBUTIONS CAN BE SENT TO Maginei Eretz Lmaan Hazulat, POBox 6592 Jerusalem, Israel 91060

Visit our website
www.israel-civilian-k9-unit.org

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To make a long story short, the day came and the day left, and our missing person had still not been found. We opened our folding beds up to get some sleep late Wednesday night to resume the search Thursday morning. We bought a second-hand bicycle from a garage-sale near the hostel, which was quite useful on the search. Thursday morning we learned that our missing person was found in Petach Tiqva, not far from where he had gone missing, 3 days after his disappearance. I was not sorry that spent the time searching the fields. I was happy he was found in the city. I would have been much more sorry had he been found a week later, dead in the fields.

OFF TO ANOTHER SEARCH

In the meantime Freddy and Shimon were on their way to help with the search. Our plans were to continue on to Haifa to finish with the search for Shlomo Didya, who had gone missing weeks ago in Haifa but who we had yet to find. We had a number of areas that we still wanted to search with cadaver dogs. However, we were all exhausted from the Rosh HaAyin search. Thus, we sent Shimon and Fred to conduct the search in Haifa through the night and we planned on setting off Thursday morning to help them, if there were still places left to search. We ended up leaving for Haifa and searching until about 1 AM Friday morning, with no results. We still have more to do in Haifa and the search is time-sensitive, while not as much a priority as searching for a person who may still be alive and in need of rescue. However, it is still important to recover a body as soon as possible since there may be little or nothing left of the body by now, as animals are known to eat people in the wilderness, sometimes within a matter of weeks.

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FUNDS ARE NEEDED. OUR UNIT DOES THE IMPOSSIBLE LEADING THE UNTOLD BATTLE OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN OR FORSAKEN- THE LOST JEWS OF ISRAEL. OUR UNIT ENGAGES IN MORE IN-DEPTH SEARCHES THAN THE ARMY, POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT COMBINED. That is a fact. Despite the fact that we are under-funded receiving zero government aid, we continue to operate and never turn down an emergency call for help. The same is true with our Defense Department that raises security dogs for "settlements" in Yesha and for towns throughout Israel. For many Jews our security dogs are their first and last line of defense against terrorists. We have succeeded in preventing many terrorist attacks over our past 16 years of existence.

We have old vehicles that must be replaced, dogs and volunteers who must be fed and maintained, need new equipment and the list goes on . This is clearly a mitzva which is being neglected and which will not be done by others. The local Rabbis, leaders of the local municiplaities and police, army and security chiefs have reccomended supporting our life-saving services. Please consider doing so. It costs no less than 5000 dollars to prepare each and every fully trained service dog, whether it is a security dog or a SAR dog. It costs no less than 10000-15000 dollars per month to maintain the unit. It will cost us no less than 50,000 dollars to purchase newer more reliable emergency response vehicles. It will cost us no less than 30,000 dollars to sponsor a much needed additional drone with night-vision heat-detection capabilities. It will cost us 30,000 dollars to expand our kennels and to build additional dormitory facilities that are much needed. We could use all of the help that we can get at this time.

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5-Dog Training schedule over the next two weeks

Thursday Nov. 17th:
 Training with Zhenya with defense dogs and search and rescue dogs as follows:
Gush Etzyon at 10 AM, in Tapuach at 4:00 PM.

Tuesday Nov. 22:
Training in Gush Etzyon 10AM, (private dog show in Sde Bar 2:00 PM, and training in Kfar Tapuach at 5:00 PM

Please confirm your participation NOW. And then, once again, please call before you set off for the training on the day of the training, to confirm that everything is still on schedule, 0544876709.

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​Israeli earthquake   -   not if, but when?

11/7/2016

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 The country is severely ill-prepared. You can help change that.
 
Last week on Nov. 2, 16, The Israel National Emergency Committee testified before the Knesset’s Security and Foreign Affairs Committee. If there would be a severe earthquake in Israel today (something experts predict will occur in near future, as every 90 years or so, Israel experiences severe quakes, the last one devastating Tiberias and other Northern Israeli cities), approximately 7000 people would be killed, 8600 severely wounded, 170,000 left homeless, and 9500 people would be trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings.
 
The Head of the Security and Foreign Affairs Committee, M.K. Avi Dichter, responded, shocked, “This amount of dead and of people trapped who can’t speak, means 100,000 Israelis waiting to know what will come of their loved ones. The nation of Israel will not be able to sustain this. You need to decide who will be called upon to give answers.”
 
How true this sad state of affairs is when it comes to Israel taking basic steps now, that could help tremendously when an earthquake hits Israel G-d forbid, or if many buildings should collapse due to missile and rocket attacks. We have enjoyed many miracles in recent wars. One must not rely on miracles. The Hamas, Hizbullah and who knows who else have hundreds of thousands of missiles and rockets aimed at Tel Aviv and other major Israeli centers. If Israel is hesitant to take the necessary steps to distance the threats emanating from Lebanon and Gaza, One would at least hope that Israel and Jews world-wide would be eager to support the efforts of such groups as the IDU – Israel Dog Unit, training and preparing dogs and handlers to deal with such a scenario where we would need to find and extricate people from under collapsed buildings as quickly as we can, while they may still be holding on to life.
 
I am aware of the efforts taken by the army and the fire department to respond to an earthquake. It is well known that dogs can and will play a central role in detecting where live people may be trapped under the rubble as well as G-d forbid where the scent of dead bodies are located. The IDF has less than 2 dozen such dogs. Dozens if not hundreds more will be needed.
There is one civilian organization known as YAKAL - the Israel Dog Unit that is trying its best to ready specially trained dogs and personnel to respond with these dogs to such an emergency. The Israel Dog Unit (IDU) is working around the clock in this regard and also is involved in searching daily for missing people in Israel as well as breeding, training and deploying security dogs in Judea, Samaria and throughout the land of Israel.


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The unit is in great need of funds to maintain operations and training - to prepare dogs and volunteer handlers in the proper use of the dogs. G-d forbid, if and when the earthquake erupts; it will be too late to start to finance the type of massive operation that is needed. NOW IS THE TIME TO READY VEHICLES, DOGS, and EQUIPMENT THAT CAN AND WILL EFFECTIVELY RESPOND AND SAVE MANY LIVES IN ISRAEL, G-d willing. Incidentally, buildings could G-d forbid collapse due to missile and rocket attacks or due to gas explosions in buildings as well. We all saw how ill-equipped Israel was to respond to the recent collapse of the parking lot in Ramat Gan. We also learned firsthand, while searching for the three missing boys who were kidnapped, killed and buried in Beit Kahil, two years ago, just how needed our dogs were in the search. We learn each and every day just how needed our dogs are in the search for missing people in Israel. In many of these cases we are the only ones searching in the depth of the wilderness for missing people.
 
OUR UNIT IS IN DESPERATE NEED OF FUNDS TO CONTINUE TO OPERATE AND TO GROW TO MEET THE GREAT CHALLENGES THAT THREATEN ISRAEL TODAY. I am screaming and warning about measures that can be taken now to prevent terror attacks with the use of our dogs, to find missing people with dogs and to rescue people from under collapsed buildings, G-d forbid the need should arise. I seek not to say, “I told you so,” but rather to take basic measures today. That could only be done with significant financial support. We are not sufficiently getting through to the people who could make a significant difference. We are struggling daily to keep the unit afloat and to be able to respond to emergencies. It is not easy.

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Please contribute generously to this holy life-saving mission. If not you, then who will step up to the plate? I do not enjoy begging. However, I tell you with great certainty that if our unit is forced to shut down that there is no other group out there with the ability to respond in any significant manner with the use of specially trained canines to a scenario where many buildings collapse. I can also tell you with certainty that there exists no other group that will do what we do in leading the searches for the people who go missing each and every day in Israel. I can also tell you with certainty that there exists no other group in Israel that deploys security dogs with security personnel in towns across Israel or to families who live on the border of vulnerable towns and “settlements”.
 
We have been using specially trained security and SAR dogs to save lives in Israel for the past 16 years with great success, rescuing missing people, preventing many terrorist attacks, and protecting places such as Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, Itamar, Yitzhar, Kiryat Arba, Mitzpeh Yair, Gush Etzyon, Elaazar, Tapuach, Bet El, Ofra, Shilo bloc, Haifa, Tzefat Forest, Kibbutz Lavie, Shedmot Mechola, Givaat Gal, Efrat, City of David, Nerya, Nachliel,  Maaleh Shomron, Sde Bar- Nokdim, Kochav Hashachar, Ade Ad, Migdalim, Jericho bloc, Lebanon border, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Leshem, Jerusalem, Kfar Hassidim, Richeilim, Migdal HaEmek, Givaot Itamar, Beth Shemesh, Moshav Bekoa, Kedumim, Mitzpe Avichai, Ramat Beth Shemesh, Ashdod, Kiryat Malachi, Kiryat Ata, Ariel, Aminadav, Nachal Gerar – Negev, Hebron, Tapuach West, Netanya, Malachei Hasharet, Givaat Asaf,  Mitspe Yericho, Eli, Ofra, Karmei Tzur, Maale Michmas, Mitzpe Donny, Kiryat Ono and more.
 
We have recommendations on file from the last three heads of the Shomron Council, The Commissioner of the Fire Dept., head of Shomron police search and rescue, Chief of Kiryat Gat Police, Chief of Netivot Police, Chief of Haifa police, Rabbi Dov Lior - Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Arba and Head of the Judea Samaria Rabbinic Committee, Rabbi Chai - Chief Rabbi of Itamar, Brig. General Knafo – former Machat Shomron, Shlomo Anavi - Chief of Security of Elaazar, Meir Hazani - Chief of Security Kedumim, Daniella Weiss, Mayor of Kedumim, Former Chief of Security of the Shomron, and many, many more.
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The ​ISRAEL DOG UNIT (IDU) IN ACTION 

11/6/2016

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Thursday the IDU – Israel Dog Unit (known as YaKaL in Hebrew) set off from our base in Tapuach with 5 dogs and 7 volunteers to continue the search for Shlomo Matnaya Didya, a 57 year-old man who went missing several weeks ago in Haifa. Didya who is disabled mentally and physically is almost blind and walks with a cane. He was last seen walking in the direction of a small grocery store that sits on Tishbi Street in the Carmel, several hundred yards away from various entry points to the slopes that lead down to Lotem Valley. He could easily have continued down the hill toward Lotem Valley and the cliffs above it as well as other nearby wilderness that border with the urban Carmel area. If Shlomo was on a park-bench or in view of people, surely they would have notified the authorities as it would be obvious that he is need of help. In all likelihood he accidently got on a wrong bus in attempt to visit a family member, or wandered off into the nearby wilderness, falling and never to be seen again. For this reason we are checking all of the bus stops that are on all of the routes that pass by a nearby bus stop. We are checking any stop that borders on wilderness-type areas and the entry points into those areas…We are also continuing to search the areas bordering with his hostel and the nearby store he frequented.


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Thursday Nov. 3, we worked through most of the night but had no positive results other than canceling the areas that we searched leaving us with another 4-5 areas that we still need to get to. Each area requires 2-3 volunteers with cadaver dog and could take several hours. Thus, we should be able to finish the areas we have slated to do on our next day of searching, hopefully tonight.
Friday morning Nov. 4th we returned back to our Tapuach base exhausted. However, most of us could not yet retire to get some sleep. We still had two dozen dogs at the kennels that required care and we still had to get shopping and cooking done for Shabbat. Shabbat we would have 6 volunteers and an additional 4 yeshiva boys who joined us for Shabbat. Since we also run the minyan on the hill of Tapuach and the early morning prayers in the Yishuv in addition to our canine tasks we worked through the day Friday up until a minute before Shabbat.   We were hoping to make kidush and start the meal immediately following the prayer services on the hill. This we did. During the meal, I dozed off on the couch near the dining room table only to be woken by the sound of my phone ringing. “No”! I mumbled to myself, as I jumped off of the couch and into my nearby room to get the phone, “Don’t tell me we have an emergency search,” to find a missing person at risk. On the other line was Dudu the head of our Northern branch, who has probably single-handedly found more missing people in the last year than all of the police and army combined.

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“Mike, there is a very serious case in “Yad Rambam” near Ramla. A woman, who never went missing before, put out the food to cook before Shabbat, left the house walking and never returned to her husband and 4 children and this was 12 hours ago at 7:00 AM, police are requesting our help. This is an absolute emergency.” I asked him for the number of the local officer in charge of the search. I called, hoping to hear that she was found or that there are not much open fields or forests in the immediate area. I knew the area from a previous search for a doctor from Hadassah hospital who went missing from a nearby moshav. Jon Davidov the officer from the Ramla police precinct on the other line pleaded with me to come, expressing the need especially for dogs in the search. Ouch, another search. We are dead-tired. However, the halachic guidelines as prescribed by Rabbi Lior are clear. If there is a clear threat to life and if you can save the life by detecting the location of the missing person in distress, with the dogs and your search efforts, then you must go, even if this means violating the Shabbat. We packed some equipment and food along with the dogs and off we went. To Yad Rambam, 43 minutes away, according to the Waze app.
 
I now had to wake a few of the guys who were fast asleep, exhausted from yesterday’s search. I have to admit this case turned into one of the most bizarre cases we ever had. We arrived at the entrance to the moshav. The police waited for us to escort us to the house of the missing person, S.M., where we found her daughters and her sisters and neighbors crying with a several squad cars outside. She left Friday morning, without telling anyone. Leaving the fish to thaw out on the counter and the tomatoes and eggplants ready to be cooked for Shabbat, and she disappeared. A camera on the house that borders the closest exit-gate of the moshav picked her up walking off with a small bag and slippers and turning left towards the highway or the Gezer Valley in the nearby field.


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 It was now 12 hours since she went missing, despite the difficulty in trying to work a tracking dog in Israel after so many hours we had little to lose by trying. S.M.’s husband now returned home, after being released by police. We had no idea that he at that time was a suspect or that he had been in police custody. This we only learned Shabbat morning, after asking neighbors on the way home from synagogue what their feelings were and after rising concerns about the strange behavior of the husband. Every neighbor seemed to say the same thing, “She would never harm herself, but he would harm her and would beat her”. In fact, we were told he had beaten her the night before and maybe she ran away from the house or just went to get some fresh air. She never went missing before and loves and lives for her 4 children – she would never harm herself. She takes no drugs and drinks no alcohol. (That does not mean that someone else did not spike her drink.) There has been a lot of stress at home as their business crashed and they are bankrupt. But you would never know it looking at their beautiful villa and nice jeep and car parked in front of the house.
 
In the meantime, Daniel a dog handler and volunteer with a tracking dog arrived from Tel Aviv with his dog - loco. The police helped us secure some clothing of the missing person so that we can have Daniel’s dog sniff the garment and commence the search from the house seeing where the dog would lead us, and to see if the dog would indeed catch the scent and take us over the path that we knew she used based on the camera near the gate. Loco is a trailing dog, which means that she may not follow exactly the footsteps of our missing person but she should follow the general path and direction where the S.M’s scent left an impression, alongside the curbs or trees or fences she had passed in addition to  footsteps. Loco led us to a tunnel that runs into the field and under the road and later into the field where Loco appeared to lose the scent. It is possible S.M. sat in the shade in the underpass for a while and that her scent was strong there because of the longtime that she spent there, in that more contain ed area, that would maintain her scent.
 
We then had Lee take out D’Jango - a tracking down that has not worked much over recent months. D’Jango is a fun Dutch Shepherd. He plays around during training but when there is a real search or a competition he seems to understand the gravity of the situation and he gets serious and works very well. He had his nose to the ground clearly working and sniffing the footsteps. At one point he lost the scent, to be returned to the last spot where he was visibly working and he took off like a rocket, catching the scent again and leading us directly to a bus stop across the highway, more or less following the path S.M. took when she left the Moshav. When D’Jango got to the bus-stop he circled and indicated there. We thought that it was very possible that she may have taken a bus towards Ramla/Tel Aviv or got a lift from the bus stop. However, we still felt obligated to search a 2-3 kilometer radius from the house, which included valleys, forest type areas and open fields. We would take a rest as it was now after midnight and most of us did not sleep much due to Thursday’s search.

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We laid out our folding cots under the clear sky above, and some of us had the unique privilege to sleep sitting up in the van. The police had long gone. 6:00 in the morning, I woke up around the same time as Yehuda to walk the 5 dogs with us and to inform S.M.’s husband that we were continuing the search. I left him my card telling him to call us if there is some new information. I thought it was strange that he was not more involved in the search and not very forthcoming with information and ideas. I also thought it was strange when he asked us why we would want to search the local fields. That is what we do, we are volunteers with specially trained dogs to help find missing people. And when we have a specific direction the person was walking we check the fields in that direction hoping to find her with a broken leg alive and well a few hundred yards into a field or dehydrated under a tree, to hopefully save her life…His contradictory answers to some of our questions got us all the more concerned. I could not help but think that he had something to do with his wife’s mysterious disappearance. And he did not look very sincere when he was crying and pleading with me to help find his wife. Be that as it may, while we need to try and build the profile of the missing person to help us with leads where and what to search for, regardless, we have to cover the fields. However, I would pay a little more attention to places off the beaten track, but close enough to a path where someone might dump a body. But at the same time I would also focus on trees and brush like in any other search. Yes, she could have been murdered and her body dragged off the road into a pit, but she also could have walked into the forest, sat down and dehydrated under a tree, or broken a leg and lay injured anywhere in the field.
 
After Yehuda and I returned from a few hours of searching, we woke the others up and set off to establish the command center closer to the new areas we would have to extend the search to. At around 12.30 the crews returned from the next search tasks and we would rest, make Kiddush and eat something at the command center. An hour later we resumed the search. By now S.M.’s siblings and their spouses found our new command center and they wanted to help in the search. When I learned how emotionally attached and close our missing-person was to her loving family I realized that this case is far more severe than we had originally contemplated. There is no way that S.M. would not contact one of her family members who she is regularly in contact with unless she was in a position where she could not talk or dead.

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As usual, we were the only ones in the depth of the field to help the family and the missing persons close friends. The police might show up in the house to make believe that they are doing something, from time to time however if she is in the field and in need of help we would be her last chance of survival. Knowing and seeing that, we felt that we must complete the areas in the immediate 3 kilometer range as quickly as possible. Our new tracking smartphone application allows us to manage and view exactly where our volunteers and dogs are searching and to see if any areas need to be better searched later. It is all archived and we could access it and merge the previous searchers together with the present search. Each searcher has a color and all of his/her movements are seen on a smartphone or a computer at the command center. We also have our volunteers mark with paint or with marking tape the exact boundaries of the search on trees and other landmarks in the field.
To be continued another time.
 
S.M. was found alive (I don’t know how well though) she is in a hospital in Haifa and reunited with her family. It seems that D’Jango was right. She evidently got to that bus stop he led us too and ended up in Haifa after changing buses…
 
The IDU Israel Dog Unit won’t be sleeping much later today-
Later today I hope to drop off two security dogs in Kiryat Arba and perhaps two additional security dogs in Efrat and give the recipients a crash-course in the proper maintenance and bonding with these highly trained security dogs - So that they are ready on Nov. 16th, for their first training exercise with the dogs. Then, I hope to go to Haifa for yet one last ditch effort to find Shlomo Didya.
 
Every day of operations and training of the unit can easily cost 1500 shekels to gas up the cars, feed the volunteers, care for the dogs etc…We need more volunteers and funds to keep our unit alive and well, in position to help with the security of many Jewish towns and “settlements” in Israel as well as to conduct the searches for missing people. Both our security programs with dogs as well as our SAR - search and rescue endeavors are in desperate need of funds at this time.
Donations can be sent directly to Maginei HaEretz LMaan Hazulat POBox 6592 Jerusalem Israel 91060
CC donations or bank transfer can be sent. Here is the donate link on our site:
http://www.israel-civilian-k9-unit.org/donate.html
 
Thanks,
 
With Love of Israel, Yekutiel (Mike)

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