PM meets mother of Israeli woman held in Russia for drugs smuggling

Prime Minister Netanyahu and Meir Ben-Shabbat, his national security adviser, met yesterday with the mother of Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American woman who has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half-years in Russia earlier this month for drug smuggling.

Netanyahu’s office says he told the mother that he would do everything in his power to bring about her release.

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