Yair Golan: Haymanut Kasau’s disappearance ‘should keep every citizen in this country awake at night’

Democrats leader Yair Golan marks the two-year anniversary of the disappearance of 9-year-old Haymanut Kasau, delivering the only statement on the milestone from any political leader so far.

“Two years of a black hole and an open wound at the heart of Israeli society. Two years in which a little girl, only nine years old, is simply gone,” says the left-wing leader in a post on X.

Kasau was last seen on February 25, 2024, in Safed on security camera footage at 7:45 p.m. handing out municipal election leaflets outside the Jewish Agency absorption center, where she had lived since immigrating with her family from Ethiopia three years earlier. Little to no progress has been made in her case over the past two years.

“Haymanut is the daughter of all of us. The fact that a child can disappear from an absorption center in the middle of a city in Israel — without a trace — should keep every citizen in this country awake at night, right and left alike,” he continues.

He adds that the state has a “moral duty” to “turn over every stone, use every means, and not give up until we know what happened to her. We are here, we will continue to search, we will continue to demand answers, and we will not give up on her.”

The only other recognition of the day by a political leader or body came from the Knesset Committee on Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, chaired by MK Gilad Kariv of Golan’s Democrats Party, which held a special session to mark the occasion.