Israeli traveler missing in Colombia-Peru area

Omri Lahad, 23, has been missing for several weeks in the Amazonas area between Colombia and Peru. The Rosh Pina resident was last spotted on October 28 in the city of Leticia in Colombia, using an ATM machine. He apparently later sailed to Iquitos in Peru.

Omri is the son of Professor Muli Lahad from the Tel Hai Academic College, who said that his son embarked on his post-army trip in mid June.

"On October 26 he left his friends and headed for the city of Leticia in the Colombia-Peru border to tour the rain forests," the father said. He noted that his son's trip in the region was meant to last two weeks while a month went by with no word from him. No clues or traces of his whereabouts were found.

A search party was sent after Omri, but has failed to find any traces of the young traveler.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Yossi Levy told ynet that the case it being dealt with by the ministry, in collaboration with embassies in Colombia, Peru, Brazil and Argentina. "We are in constant contact with the family," Levy said.

Lahad family members ask that anybody who knows someone who has been traveling in the last months in the area between Leticia and Peru check whether they had met of heard of Omri.

More information can be found via the following e-mail address: findomrilahad@gmail.com.

Daniel Edelson contributed to this report