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 ...
Naama Issachar, who was held for 10 month in Moscow starting in 2019, is speaking out about her experience as Brittney Griner’s Russian detention stretches on. Issachar tells NBC News’ Kate Snow that ...
FAIR LAWN, N.J. (CNN/CBS) -- 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, ...
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 ...
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 ...