{"id":454271,"date":"2023-07-12T05:37:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T09:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=454271"},"modified":"2023-07-12T05:37:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T09:37:38","slug":"male-elderly-israeli-citizen-kidnapped-in-ethiopia-israel-foreign-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/454271","title":{"rendered":"Male Elderly Israeli citizen kidnapped in Ethiopia: Israel Foreign Ministry\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A male elderly Israeli citizen has been kidnapped in Ethiopia, Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry disclosed on Tuesday evening.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a statement the ministry said the Israeli citizen was kidnapped several days ago in Ethiopia while on a trip to the country. The kidnapped Israeli citizen was reportedly in the east African country for unspecified medical treatment purposes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Israel Foreign Ministry statement said the elderly Israeli national was kidnapped in the Gonder region of Ethiopia\u2019s northern Amhara region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry\u2019s statement didn\u2019t disclose the identities of the kidnappers. It also didn\u2019t specify the reason for the elderly Israeli national\u2019s kidnapping though other media outlets have reported the elderly man is being held for ransom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In May, errant gunfire in the northern Ethiopia city of Gondar reportedly killed three Ethiopian Jews and wounded nine other Ethiopian Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Citing an anonymous source in the Ethiopian Jewish community, the online based media outlet Times of Israel disclosed at the time the fatalities happened during violent protests against the Ethiopian federal government decision to \u201cdisband\u201d the Amhara region special forces.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A male elderly Israeli citizen has been kidnapped in Ethiopia, Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry disclosed on Tuesday evening.\u00a0 In a statement the ministry said the Israeli citizen was kidnapped several days ago in Ethiopia while on a trip to the country. The kidnapped Israeli citizen was reportedly in the east African country for unspecified medical treatment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":454272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4821],"tags":[5845],"class_list":["post-454271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","category-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/GettyImages-1238821456.jpg?fit=870%2C489&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1UaX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454273,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454271\/revisions\/454273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}