JERUSALEM (JTA) — The mother of American-Israeli backpacker Naama Issachar, who was released after spending 10 months in a Russian prison on drug charges, apologized Monday after her daughter did not ...

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 ...

An Israeli-American woman pardoned by Russian President Vladimir Putin last week after being convicted of drug smuggling is planning on appealing her conviction, maintaining that she was innocent and ...

Before Brittney Griner, there was Naama Issachar. What was supposed to be a three-hour layover in Moscow turned into a monthslong ordeal in Russian detention for Issachar, an American Israeli woman ...

Family, friends and supporters call for the release of Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American woman imprisoned in Russia for drug offenses, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on October 19, 2019. (Tomer ...

Russian media on Wednesday released a photograph of Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American backpacker sentenced in Russia to seven-and-a-half-years in prison earlier this month for drug smuggling, and ...

An American-Israeli woman arrested at a Moscow airport with nine and a half grams of marijuana has found herself at the center of a diplomatic standoff between Israel, Russia, and the United States.

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Hours after her release Issachar (L) and her mother were greeted in Moscow by the Israeli prime minister and his wife (2nd R) Russia has released a dual US-Israeli national who was detained on charges ...

On the coming Shabbat - as on every Simchat Torah - we will read the concluding Parasha of the Torah, Parashat VeZot Habracha. The Piascezna Rebbe, Rav Kalonymus Kalman Shapira hy’d, offers a ...

JERUSALEM — Naama Issachar was boarding a connecting flight at the Moscow airport on her way home to Israel last April when the authorities found a few grams of marijuana in her luggage, an amount so ...

Sources involved in the negotiations said Russia decided to use Issachar as a bargaining chip for the release of a Russian hacker. If boycotting the country is not enough to get the Turks to release ...