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 ...

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 ...

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 ...