August 15, 2026
The trip to Vienna that turned into a mystery
צילום: לפי סעיף 27א
Mali Yahalomi and her daughter Liel are an Israeli mother and daughter who traveled to tour in Vienna.
On August 7, contact with them was lost.
The family reported their disappearance, and the police began searching for them.
The story quickly became one of the main topics in the Israeli media.
Every update on the search received a lot of attention.
In the first days, it was unclear what had happened to them.
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The police investigated the possibility that something bad had happened to them. But later, details emerged suggesting another possibility. According to the police, the mother and daughter had planned in advance to leave Vienna and head to another country. They even deleted information from their phones and tried to give the impression that they were still in Vienna.
The police also examined Mali's financial situation. Before the trip, she withdrew around 14,000 euros in cash from her account. Investigators also examined the connection to money taken from the grandmother. At the same time, they tried to figure out where the mother and daughter had gone. Vienna is a central location from which one can travel to many countries.
It was eventually discovered that Mali and Liel had left Europe and arrived in Argentina. The Israeli police sent a representative to Argentina, and they were located in Buenos Aires. According to the police, they are fine, and there is no suspicion that anything criminal happened to them. Now the police are trying to understand why they decided to leave Vienna and not inform the family about the plan.