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May 7, 2020

By Claiming Ownership of a Jerusalem Courtyard, the Kremlin Has Scored a Soft-Power Victory

The Orthodox Church and the Israeli backpacker.

In 2019, an Israeli backpacker named Naama Issachar was arrested at the Moscow airport, en route home from India, for possession of a modest amount of marijuana. She was sentenced to over seven years in jail, but was released in January after strenuous Israeli diplomacy. But of course Vladimir Putin demanded, and received, something in return. Shay Attias writes:

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