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IDF frees cabbie Eliyahu Gurel
By Amos Harel

Kidnapped taxi driver Eliyahu Gurel was freed, safe and sound, late last night by Israel Defense Forces special forces. None of the soldiers was hurt in the action.
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Gurel had gone missing under mysterious circumstances on Friday after taking passengers from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. His cab was later found abandoned near the village of Beit Hanina, on the road from Jerusalem to Ramallah.

Close to midnight last night, special forces located the missing cabbie in an abandoned building in Bitouniyah, west of Ramallah. Soldiers from the crack Sayeret Matkal unit broke into the building, to find Gurel alone and bound, after his captors apparently fled. Not one shot was fired. Gurel was sent to hospital in Jerusalem.

Earlier, fighters of the police counter-terror unit together with the undercover Duvdevan unit succeeded in arresting four people who had been involved in the kidnapping as well as a number of accomplices. According to one report, the abducters revealed Gurel's location to them.

Intermittent contacts with Gurel's abducters had been underway over the past few days. The kidnappers called his family and a team of military experts oversaw the negotiations. Informed sources said the kidnappers had changed their demands several times, asking alternately for money or the release of part or all of the Palestinian prisoners being held by Israel.

Meanwhile, a source in the prime minister's entourage in London said last night that abducted Israeli businessman Elhanan Tenenbaum is alive but not in good health. He did not say where he was being held
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