Overview
- Mali and Liel Yahalomi, an Israeli mother and daughter, have been missing since Friday and the search entered its fifth day without a breakthrough.
- The Israeli embassy in Vienna issued an urgent public missing‑persons alert on Monday night asking the public for information.
- Austrian police and security services are working with Israel's Foreign Ministry while local volunteers, the Vienna Chabad House and business owners have activated WhatsApp networks and reported possible sightings.
- Investigators have found no record of the pair on the Chabad House registration lists or on its CCTV and police also found the women’s rented apartment empty of belongings.
- Open Schengen borders complicate tracing movements because the pair traveled from the Czech Republic to Vienna and could have moved quickly into neighboring countries, leaving officials with no clear lead.