Police organized a massive search and rescue effort with the help of volunteers and civilians. However, all search attempts were unsuccessful.
Ynet published a report back in March on Diskind telling of a man who lived in the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, born into a haredi (ultra-Orthodox) family with 11 siblings.Two-and-a-half years prior to his disappearance, Diskind fell ill. The day of his disappearance, he told his sister – whom he was quite close with – that he had a referral for a hospital appointment, to run some tests, according to Ynet. He was afraid to go.Diskind ended up at Lifta, on a solitary walk. Only a few hours prior to his disappearance, he made the last phone call that records his activity from a stranger's phone to his sister, asking her not to look for him, the report tells.The search commenced, and the Diskind family was fairly certain that whatever Yaakov was sick with was what caused him to fall to his death, according to the report.