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Efforts to release Israeli hostage in Iraq ongoing, Israeli official says
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Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian academic who was kidnapped in Iraq in March 2023, speaks in a clip aired November 13, 2023, by Iraq's Al Rabiaa satellite TV network. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Efforts to secure the release of Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian academic kidnapped nearly two years ago in Baghdad, are ongoing, an Israeli official tells the Ynet news site after an Iraqi report says she will be released in around a week.
The official says, “Israel has requested assistance from the US and additional countries” on the matter.
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