(JNS.org) The parents of missing 23-year-old yeshiva student Aaron Sofer, of Lakewood, NJ, are offering a $28,000 reward for anyone who can help locate their missing son. Sofer has been missing since Friday, Aug. 22, when he and a friend went on a hike in a difficult rocky and wooded portion of the Jerusalem Forest. At some point during the hike, Sofer and his friend apparently became separated, with Sofer never emerging. “The police are working tirelessly on all fronts, and all options are being strongly investigated,” Sofer’s father Moshe said. Family and friends are worried about Sofer in light of Hamas’s murder of three Israeli teens in June.