On Thursday, May 3, 2013, an Israeli man in his 30s jumped the border fence separating Lebanon and Israel and was arrested by Lebanese army intelligence shortly after. During his interrogation, he said that he fled Israel voluntarily because he was suffering socially in Israeli society.
Al-Monitor learned — from sources inside the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which assigned an officer to be present during the Israeli man’s interrogation — the man’s identity, his story’s details and why he fled to Lebanon.