“I am so happy to hear about President Putin’s decision to have mercy on Naama, and I thank him for the wisdom and humanity of this decision,” he wrote on his Twitter.
Rivlin also thanked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his assistance in releasing Issahar.
Earlier, Netanyahu thanked Putin for the decision to have mercy on an Israeli woman.
On January 29, Putin signed a decree to pardon Issakhar, detained in April 2019 in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo Airport.