Car with baby inside stolen from Hadera hospital; suspect arrested, infant returned

A man drove off in a car with a baby inside at a hospital in the north of the country on Monday, leaving the distraught mother crying out for help.

Security guards outside the emergency room at the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera were able to swiftly apprehend the vehicle and return the baby to its mother unharmed.

The hospital said in a statement that a patient, “apparently in a psychiatric state, who escaped the emergency room, got into a car that had just arrived at the emergency room.”

Security personnel “responded immediately and professionally” to detain the suspect and reported the matter to police, the........

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