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Thursday, December 2, 2021
Bus driver Mordy Oknin returns to job after ordeal in Turkish prison
Mordy Oknin, the Israeli bus driver who was briefly jailed in Turkey with his wife and accused of espionage for photographing a presidential palace, has returned to work.
“I’m very excited to get back to the bus. I missed it,” Oknin tells Walla news.
“Passengers welcomed me with love and embraces, it touches me,” he said, adding that he was happy to get back to normal life.
His wife Natali has not yet returned to work. “It will happen in her own time,” he says.
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