The police asked the public's help Monday evening in finding 97-year-old Michael Kleiner, who was last seen during the afternoon hours in Kiryat Bialik, north of Haifa. Kleiner suffers from a number of illnesses.

He is described as 1.9 meters/6 feet 3 inches tall with a medium build. When last seen, he was wearing blue pants, a light-striped shirt, a yellow hat and sandals. Kleiner speaks Hebrew, Russian and Yiddish. Anyone with information is asked to call the police switchboard (100).