Soldier faked kidnapping and caused panic

This afternoon (Tuesday), at around 18:00, police of the Tel Aviv District received a report from the IDF war room of a phone call from a person identified as an IDF soldier, who said he was kidnapped from Zerifin area.

Following the report, alarm barriers were activated, and a helicopter was alerted. Barriers on the seam line were closed.

Attempts were made to contact the soldier. Several times attempts were unsuccessful and eventually contact was made with him and he told the police officer that a large man tied him up and placed on a large vehicle with tinted windows and he does not know where he is, at this stage the call was cut off.

After searching in Tel Aviv, the vehicle was located empty, and police cars continued to comb the area where the vehicle was found to locate the soldier suspected of being hijacked.

Attempts to contact him by phone and via WhatsApp were constantly made, and occasionally he made contact and said that he is at the back of the vehicle and does not know its location. At about 20:00 pm, an indication of his location was received, that he is in motion on the Namir Road to the north and reached the Glilot junction. A police checkpoint of the Glilot station located the "kidnapped soldier" on a bus. The soldier was taken for questioning at the Glilot station.

Fear of kidnapping has been removed, and was probably a prank.

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