(Times of Israel) Mitch Ginsburg - By Saturday night, the trail of evidence, including the discovery of a sandal and eyeglasses that belonged to one of the boys, had narrowed the search. But in the end it was a group of civilians who found the three teens. The outdoorsmen included Hovav Landau, a former paratroop officer, who builds bike trails, and Yaron Rosenthal, director of the field school in Kfar Etzion where two of the boys went to high school. They drew up a search plan of their own, which was adopted by the Etzion brigade commander Col. Amit Yamin. On Monday morning, five civilians headed out, accompanied by 20 soldiers. In the afternoon, the group walked along the shoulder of a hill outside Halhul, looking for anything unnatural among the rocks and bushes. Two terraces down the slope, one of the outdoorsmen "saw some vegetation that did not look like it belonged," Landau said. "As soon as he started digging it was clear that there was something significant there."
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