Investigation
Following Schuchmacher's disappearance from Israel, Straks was imprisoned and police arrested the couple that had hidden the boy in Bnei Brak. Sometime later on, Ruth Ben-David, still in France, decided to sell her house and met a potential real estate agent named Mr. Faber in an attorney's office. The real estate agent was, in fact, Isser Harel, who placed Ben-David under interrogation with humiliating treatment. Though uncooperative at first, Ben-David began to talk after the Shin Bet told her that her son was cooperating with them.
By this point it was August 1962, and with Schuchmacher's location identified, two officials from Shin Bet came to the door of the Gertner's home in Brooklyn on a Saturday night and requested the immigration papers of Yankele Frenkel. No papers were presented, and the boy was removed from the house until his mother came to retrieve him several days later.
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