Talk:Elhanan Tannenbaum

Tenenbaum / Tanenboym?
In January 65.96.133.73 changed all the spellings of the subject's surname to Tanenboym from Tenenbaum, but didn't request that the article be moved accordingly. Firstly, we need to make sure we're consistent. Secondly (and less importantly) is Tanenboym really the spelling we should use? The mia.org.il links cited in the article spell it Tenenbaum, as do the BBC links. This seems also to be the spelling used by the Jerusalem Post(e.g. ). Haaretz' search engine is broken (and they seem to forbid google's spider). So should decide which spelling is the one most commonly used in English language media, make the article self-consistent, and then make redirects from the reasonable alternate spellings. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 19:32, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I checked the sources and all of them spell it neither Tenenbaum nor Tanenboym, but rahter Tannenbaum, so I changed and moved the article accordingly. Zocky | picture popups 03:51, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

What is the source for the assertion that Tenenbaum was kidnapped from Kuwait? According to one of the BBC stories linked to from this article, it was Dubai.

Elhanan Tannenbaum admits he was dealing drugs in Lebanon
"Making a court appearance as a witness in a tax fraud case linked to other suspects involved in the same drug ring, Tannenbaum admitted that he went to Lebanon to complete a drug deal from which he expected to make $200,000 (€152,000), according to a report on Army Radio." source: [IHT http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/20/africa/ME_GEN_Israel_Former_Captive.php] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.29.226.213 (talk) 23:17, 21 December 2006 (UTC).

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Officer or businessman?
Several contributors to this article have repeatedly tried to hide or obscure the fact that Tannenbaum was a senior officer in the Israeli army. That was why he was kidnapped in the first place, which is clear from Nasrallah's statement and which also explains why Israel so desperately wanted him back.

Strangely, I find no such tendencies in the Hebrew sister article. He had previously engaged in some failed business enterprises but whether he was still an active businessman at the time of the abduction is unclear. Apart from his failed attempt to import illegal drugs to Israel.

Anyway, he is no longer an IDF officer and I have no idea whether he still is a businessman.

"Brewcrewer's" explanation for his latest revert is confusing: "dont confuse propoganda with reality. need indenpendant sources".

Are you suggesting that Ronen Bergman is "propaganda"? Independent source for what?

Jokkmokks-Goran (talk) 16:32, 10 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Tannebaum was a an officer in the reserves - like virtually ALL Israeli males. Most reliable source describe him as a businessman, see for example:


 * The four Israelis include three soldiers seized in a disputed area on the Lebanese-Israeli border and an Israeli businessman
 * Israeli businessman kidnapped, Iran blamed
 * Tannenbaum family awaits news of missing businessman
 * Hezbollah released kidnapped Israeli businessman Elhanan Tannenbaum


 * I think what Brewcrewer mans is that after kidnapping this businessman, Hezbollah found it convenient to claim they captured a soldier, because otherwise they would seem as a criminal organization engaged in kidnapping and piracy - that's what he means by 'propaganda'. That he was kidnapped because he was a reserve colonel is merely the POV of Hezbollah, and can't be described in Wikipedia's voice either directly or implicitly (by emphasizing his former role as a colonel over his current civilian job.) Jeff Song (talk) 18:35, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

No WP:BLP violation
This is not a WP:BLP issue at all. It is well-sourced uncontroversial facts denied by no one. The tone and formulation is extremely restrained. I therefore revert Kipa Aduma, Esq. (talk)'s unwarranted deletions.

The term “shady businessman” that he removed was quotation taken from Ronen Bergman’s referenced New York Times article and is one of the more polite descriptions of Col. Tannenbaum’s character that I have come across. The part of his activity described in this article is not controversial in any way since he eventually confessed to all this in detail.

The NYT noted in a separate news article “the murky circumstances surrounding his kidnapping” and described Mr. Tannenbaum as “a reserve army officer, [that] had incurred sizable debts from failed business ventures and gambling losses and was seeking to arrange a drug deal”.

YNet described his “dodgy business dealings”, travelling to an enemy country under false identity and making a drug deal with an individual who was “wanted by Israel for connections with Hizbullah” and then lied to his Israeli interrogators after his release.

Knesset member Chemi Doron called him “merely a despicable, small-time dealer” who “deserves to be – behind bars”.

Jerusalem Post editor Caroline Glick simply labeled him as the “Israeli drug dealer Elhanan Tannenbaum.”

Finally Haaretz wrote that more than 30 Israelis were killed in attacks carried out by Palestinians released in the Tannenbaum prisoner exchange, from the Jenin area alone.

Jokkmokks-Goran (talk) 22:06, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

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