Yaffa Issachar on Monday apologized after her daughter, who was jailed in Russia for 10 months on drug charges, neglected to mention Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a post thanking those who ...

MOSCOW — Israeli-American backpacker Naama Issachar reunited with her mother on Thursday at Moscow’s airport after her release from Russian prison, and boarded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ...

Issachar, 26, is an American-Israeli who was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison in Russia after 9.5 gr. of cannabis were found in her suitcase during a stopover in Moscow en route home to Israel from a ...

On Wednesday morning, Putin signed a decree pardoning Issachar, and on Thursday morning, it was reported that the Israeli national had already left the detention facility MOSCOW, January 30. /TASS/.

Sources involved in the negotiations said Russia decided to use Issachar as a bargaining chip for the release of a Russian hacker. An Israeli who was behind held in a Russian prison on drug charges ...