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Yossele Schuchmacher (born 1952) is an Israeli whose abduction as a child became a cause célèbre in Israel and led Mossad and its director Isser Harel on a worldwide search for his whereabouts. ==Abduction== Schumacher was born in Russia and immigrated to Israel as a child with his parents. Due to financial difficulties, his parents requested that Yossele's Haredi grandparents, Nachman and Miriam Straks, take care of him. After a few months the father decided that he wanted to move back to Russia. Yossele's grandparents were aghast and were determined that Yossele not go back. Fearing that the Schuchmachers might end up in Russia, the Orthodox community of Jerusalem took the boy from his grandparents and hid the boy in 1960. He was hidden in various places in Israel, including Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Safed, Rishon LeZion, and Komemiyut. In the shadow of a court order for his return and a possible police search, the rabbis of the Jerusalem Orthodox community disguised Schuchmacher as a girl and placed him in the care of Ruth Blau (Ruth Ben David), a Frenchwoman convert to Judaism in 1950 who initially was Zionist but latter on adopted Haredi anti-Zionist views and in 1965 married Amram Blau, founder of the anti-Zionist group Neturei Karta. She took him with her to Europe using the identity of her son "Claude" falsifying documents and crossing with the child through several European countries.〔page 109. BLAU (Ruth) Les Gardiens de la cité. Histoire d'une guerre sainte Paris Flammarion 1978〕 Schuchmacher would spend two years total in France and Switzerland under her care. By this time, authorities in Israel had increased their search efforts, leading Ruth Ben-David or Ruth Blau to again disguise Schumacher as a girl (new name "Claudine", then "Menahen Levy", etc.,) and smuggle him into the United States in March 1962. There he was hidden in the apartment of a Haredi woman named Mrs. Gertner at 126 Penn St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Subsequently the family changed Schuchmacher's name to Yankele Frenkel and kept him indoors, holding him from the time he arrived in March until August 1962.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yossele Schumacher affair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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