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 ...

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 ...

An Israeli diplomatic official tells Channel 12 news that Jerusalem is not surprised at the Russian court’s rejection of Naama Issachar’s appeal. The official says the best way for her to be freed is ...

We read in our Parasha, that, Yaakov Avinu, on his death-bed, (49:1-14) "called for his sons and said: ’Assemble yourselves and I will tell you what will befall you in the End of Days, Gather ...

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.

Moscow — Russia's prison service said Thursday that a U.S.-Israeli woman jailed for drug trafficking had been freed from prison after President Vladimir Putin pardoned her. She was to travel back home ...