Elchanan Tenenbaum
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Elchanan Tenenbaum, (born August 12, 1946) is a retired colonel in the Israel Defense Force. Tenenbaum's capture was announced on October 16, 2000 by the Lebanese terrorist group Hizbullah after being lured out of Israel under circumstances unknown at the time of this writing.
It is alleged he was lured into an ambush by Hizbullah under false pretenses. These pretenses are rumored to be a business deal or possibly a drug deal, though the Israeli government denies the latter. It is believed he was either captured in Europe and taken to Lebanon or captured in the United Arab Emirates after traveling there from Belgium and then transported back to Lebanon. His abduction is believed to have been conducted by Imad Mugniyah, a senior member of Hizbullah.
Tenenbaum was released in 2004 as part of POW swap with Hizbullah. The swap, mediated by Germany, resulted in the exchange of 435 prisoners held by Israel in return for Tenenbaum's release and the return of the bodies of three soldiers killed during an ambush along the Israeli-Lebanese border.
Among the 435 people released were Mustafa Dirani and Sheik Abdul-Karim Obeid. These two individuals were captured, in 1994 and 1989 respectively, for use as bargaining chips in the effort to secure the release of the most famous of the Israeli MIAs, Ron Arad. Fearing the release of these men would end any hope of finding Arad, his family attempted to take legal action to prevent their release. Nothing came of this effort.
ICMIS Biography on Tenenbaum http://www.mia.org.il/tannenbaum.html
ICMIS collection of media articles on him and other missing Israeli soldiers. http://www.mia.org.il/archive.html