Police are searching the forest and have questioned a friend of Sofer 's who was `` the last man who saw him face-to-face , eye-to-eye , '' Rosenfeld said . NEW : The missing man 's brother says the family are `` praying hard '' Aaron Sofer disappeared while hiking in the Jerusalem Forest . A friend of Mr Sofer, who was last seen on June 8, has told MailOnline that he is not a suspect and believes his disappearance to be an accident. Sofer , 23 , is a Yeshiva student studying in Israel .
NEW : The missing man 's brother says the family are `` praying hard '' Aaron Sofer disappeared while hiking in the Jerusalem Forest . A friend of Mr Sofer, who was last seen on June 8, has told MailOnline that he is not a suspect and believes his disappearance to be an accident. Sofer , 23 , is a Yeshiva student studying in Israel .