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 jailed in Russia on drug charges has been released from prison after some 10 months, the Russian prison service said Thursday morning. “Due to the presidential decree on ...

Naama Issachar, Israeli-American backpacker spared from Russian jail by a presidential pardon, met with Israel's caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara on Thursday. The meeting ...

Tatiana Moskalkova, the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, visited Naama Issachar in her Moscow prison Thursday. At the end of the visit, the commissioner said that Naama was watching the ...

After learning of WNBA star Brittney Griner’s detention in Russia, Naama Issachar knew she needed to share her story. While traveling in 2019, Issachar had a layover in Moscow. After authorities found ...

The Kremlin said on Friday that the possible release of Naama Issachar was being held up because she had not yet formally requested to be pardoned. Issachar, 26, an American-Israeli woman jailed in ...

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 ...

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Naama Issachar, an Israeli citizen, was sentenced to seven and a half years in a Russian prison for allegedly attempting to smuggle 9.6 grams of cannabis into the country. She was on a layover between ...