Yehoshua (Shuki) Tartakovsky, a former Chareidi from Jerusalem, entered Lebanon as an “investigative journalist” and was arrested on Tuesday, along with several other journalists, including one from Lebanon. Tartakovsky, who later associated with extreme leftist organizations and attended US universities, reportedly traveled to Lebanon two weeks ago. His behavior aroused suspicion and he was arrested by Lebanese security officials in Dahieh, the neighborhood in Beirut which houses the Hezbollah headquarters and has been attacked by the IDF multiple times in recent weeks, including the powerful strikes that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The Lebanese officials found an Israeli passport in his possession. The officials searched for his name on Google and found two articles in his name on the Israeli extreme left-communist website: “זו הדרך.” According to Lebanese reports, Tartakovsky, who holds Israeli, American and British citizenship, entered Lebanon with a British passport. One of his blurbs says that he is an American-Israeli journalist, a graduate of Brown University and the London School of Economics. According to past friends and acquaintances, Tartakovsky suffers from mental health problems and no one was surprised by the report that he had entered Lebanon. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)