In a highly unusual and disturbing incident, a two-week-old Israeli infant was abducted from the neonatal unit of Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital in Yerushalayim and later found abandoned in a hotel in Yericho, within Palestinian Authority territory.
According to details released by authorities, the baby’s mother, an Israeli Jewish woman, removed her child from the hospital’s neonatal ward and traveled with him to Yericho. Upon arrival, she checked into a local hotel, where she left the infant alone in one of the rooms before fleeing.
Israeli security officials immediately alerted their counterparts in the Palestinian Authority. In coordination with Israeli authorities, Palestinian security forces launched a search operation and successfully located the child in one of the hotel rooms.
The infant was handed over to the Israeli Civil Administration around 2:00 a.m., bringing the tense ordeal to a safe conclusion. The child was returned to Israel in stable condition.
The mother was subsequently arrested and is being interrogated by Israeli police.

{Matzav.com Israel}