Yaffe Issachar, the mother of Naama who is being held in Russian prison, thanked Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu for bringing her up in his conversation with President Vladimir Putin, during which Netanyahu asked Putin to release Naama and allow her to return to Israel.
"Mr. Netanyahu, I want to personally tell you that after Naama's personal insistence over the last few days, she got to light a Hanukkah candle in a Russian prison with a Chabad emissary, Rabbi Shia Deutsch, and eat a Sufgania (Traditional donut eaten during Chanukah), ” Issachar said.
"I ask you Mr. Prime Minister, please do your utmost to persuade your friend President Putin to allow Naama to light a candle as a free woman in the State of Israel together with the citizens of Israel and with you as Prime Minister of the State of Israel and the Jewish people, her being moved to a very remote prison in Russia in the coming days will make it difficult for me to visit her, "the worried mother added.