More than 4,000 soldiers, border and regular police continued to comb northern Israel today for a trace of a missing young woman soldier, Hadass Kedmi, 20, last seen on November 29 hitchhiking to her home at Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk in the Haifa Bay area.
The official search parties were joined by civilian volunteers — Jews, Arabs and Druze — but so far the search, which began Sunday, has yielded no clues. The missing woman, and another woman soldier, were hitchhiking together from their army base near Tel Aviv to their homes in the Haifa area.
Kedmi left the car at the outskirts of Haifa to find a ride in the direction of Kfar Masaryk and disappeared. Police fear she may have been a victim of terrorists.
They have renewed, though on a smaller scale, the search for a 21-year-old male soldier, David Manos, who vanished in the same area last November 7. The police believe that both of these disappearances, and the disappearances of several young civilians in recent months, may be linked to terrorist activity.
The search for Manos was delayed last month because his unit listed him as absent-without-leave and did not inform the police until his parents in Petach Tikva contacted his commanding officer to find out why he never came home.
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