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Psychics help Israeli Army hunt kidnapped soldiers
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 ISRAEL. Though the Israeli military authorities have denied the use of a psychic in the hunt for a missing soldier, several independent reports suggest that the claim is true.
The psychic detective work, carried out by Israeli healer and medium Orit Tomer Ish-Yemini, was an attempt to pinpoint the whereabouts Gilad Shalit (pictured), a corporal in the Israel Defence Forces who was captured near the Gaza Strip on 25 June.
The kidnapping of 20-year-old Shalit by Palestinian militants and that of two other Israelis by Hezbollah in a separate incident in July led first to the Israel-Gaza conflict and later to Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon.
According to the UK’s The Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher, conventional means such as the use of surveillance drones and intelligence networks failed to identify the location of the missing soldier. So “the army has deployed a 41-year-old mother of three who earns a living as a medium”. He adds: “Orit Tomer Ish-Yemini developed the skill in her late teens when her much-loved grandfather died, only to appear to her repeatedly in dreams.”
The army, the report continues, refused to admit that it has worked with Mrs Tomer Ish-Yemini. It adds: “But The Daily Telegraph spoke to one of two officers who visited her house armed with maps and paperwork to ask for her help to locate the corporal, whose capture precipitated a major Middle East crisis.”
Israeli English language news website www.haaretz.com (11 October), was a lot more forthcoming. Its report, from Hebrew language site News First Class (NFC), says the army’s “affair with the supernatural” began just after Shalit was seized. A Friday night news show on Channel 2 had revealed that South Command officers employed the services of Orit Tomer Ish-Yemini. She had been brought in by one of the soldiers and drew possible locations of the kidnappers on a map. Nothing came of the information she provided.
But it goes on to report:
“Between the second and third week of the second war in Lebanon, a medium ‘with special powers’ was employed to contact spirits.” Among the top military brass who were present, it reports, were several Israeli army generals, the chief of staff, Dan Halutz, and Defence Minister Amir Peretz.
The psychic involved was not Orit Tomer Ish-Yemini, but a male. “He brought blank white papers, stroked the map, and drew a picture of a house in which some of the soldiers were supposed to be confined,” a military source told the newspaper.
Who was it? See “Roy’s Blog”.
The presence of this psychic was greeted with shock by some of those present and one of the generals held his head and said, “I don’t believe how low we’ve sunk.”
The official response to these claims is that any involvement with mediums would have been private initiatives on the part of individual soldiers. It also says it received many calls from people claiming to have information and it always treats the callers with courtesy.
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Posted on Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Category: Psychic detectives
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