And the name became famous Tennenbaum In the early 2000s because he was captured HezbollahAnd its connection to a prisoner exchange operation sparked controversy in Israel.
According to details reported by the Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post, Hezbollah kidnapped Tenenbaum in 2000 after traveling to Lebanon under the guise of searching for information about a missing Israeli pilot named Ron Arad.
But it later became clear that he had fallen into a trap set for him by Hezbollah, which lured him into participating in a drug smuggling deal to Israel in which he would receive $200,000, knowing that Tenenbaum was going through major financial problems.
At the time of his capture by Hezbollah, he held the rank of reserve colonel in the Israeli artillery force.
4 years after his kidnapping, it was concluded Israel A deal with Hezbollah mediated by Germany, during which the party released Tenenbaum and the bodies of 3 Israeli soldiers, in exchange for Israel releasing more than 400 Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners.
The deal sparked controversy at the time because Tenenbaum was involved in “illegal activities that led to his kidnapping,” according to the Jerusalem Post.
While Tenenbaum initially claimed that he had traveled to Lebanon to gather intelligence on the missing Israeli pilot, it later emerged that he was deeply in debt, and that his trip was part of a drug deal into which Hezbollah lured him.
Upon his return to Israel, authorities interrogated Tenenbaum for two months.
Initially, he confirmed that his motives for traveling to… Lebanon It was linked to the search for the pilot, but he eventually confessed to his role in the drug smuggling operation.
In 2007, a special military court demoted his rank from colonel to soldier.
