A mentally ill 23-year-old Israeli was arrested two weeks ago in Kentucky for allegedly hijacking an ambulance and kidnapping the medical crew inside, Army Radio reported Wednesday.

According to the report, it is unclear how the man, who had been committed to a hospital for the mentally ill in Israel, managed to leave the country, as Israel's border control has no record of his departure. It is possible that he himself was kidnapped to the United States.

Meir (a pseudonym), the brother of the man arrested in Kentucky, told Army Radio on Wednesday that "a week before the Passover Seder, my mother received a phone call from a man who claimed to be in the United States. He said that he would welcome my brother there. My mother asked him not to call, and explained that her son was mentally ill."

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Meir also told Army Radio that "a day before the Seder, my brother didn't take his medication and went wild, so we requested that he be forcefully committed to the hospital, but he could not be found. The next day, my sister received a call. It was my brother on the line and he said 'I don't know where I am, I'm in New York'. We couldn't believe he was actually there"

Meir still does not understand how his brother left the country, considering that he does not have a visa to enter the U.S.