Hardly a day goes by without my receiving a report of a psychic being consulted to solve a crime or mystery. Television production companies, in particular, have discovered that the combination of alleged paranormal powers and unsolved crimes makes for compelling viewing.
The fact that few of them result in an arrest or conviction is largely immaterial. The psychic usually achieves enough “hits” to be impressive and it is left to us to wonder how many “misses” were edited out.
But this week’s reports of the Israeli Army using psychics to try to locate three missing men – kidnapped in two different incidents – certainly comes as a surprise.
One of the psychics is named as Orit Tomer Ish-Yemini, who is better known in Israel as a healer and psychic diagnostician than a paranormal detective. Described by the Jerusalem Post (in 2002) as articulate, slim, beautiful and a heavy smoker, Ish-Yemini is said to ...