The state paid the Russians a consideration that at this stage remains confidential • Senior government officials to "Israel Today": "The restraining order is puzzling, there is no reason for the public not to know" • The young woman landed in Israel last night, after being transferred from Syria to Russia To Putin
The secret consideration:
Israel paid additional consideration to the Russians for the Israeli who crossed the border, but the censorship forbids its publication, Israel Today has learned.
Senior government officials to "Israel Today": "The restraining order is puzzling, there is no reason for the public not to know."
The young Israeli woman landed last night (Friday), after being transferred by the Syrians to Russia.
The young woman's return was made possible after Russia mediated a deal between the parties in which two Syrian citizens imprisoned in Israel were released, and the sentence of a resident of Israel suspected of aiding a hostile factor was shortened by three months.
Prime Minister Netanyahu on the return of the young Israeli woman from Syria
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for his assistance in the prisoner deal, and Israeli security bodies for their efforts to secure the release of the young woman.
"A few days ago, a young Israeli woman crossed the border into Syria.
"I spoke twice with my friend Russian President Vladimir Putin, I asked for his help to answer it, and he did act," the prime minister said.
"I would like to thank him for pledging to return Israeli citizens to Israel again. Israel has always done and will always do everything in its power to return our citizens to Israel. I would like to thank the President of the State, the head of the National Security Council, the IDF, GSS "An institution, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and everyone who helped in this important operation. Thank you," he concluded.
Permitted for publication: Crossed the border near Majdal Shams
Last night, the coordinator of the prisoners and missing persons, Yaron Blum, took off for Moscow, and he returned with the young woman tonight.
Meanwhile, the IDF allowed the publication that the young woman had crossed the border in a mountainous area near the Druze village of Majdal Shams.
Besides Yaron Blum is on the flight, the chief of staff in the Prime Minister's Office, Asher Hayun.
It is estimated that the affair will come to an end in the next day.
Israel Today has learned that in addition to the conversation that has already been published between Netanyahu and Putin on February 8, another conversation has taken place in recent days, with the aim of bringing about the liberation of Israel.
Earlier, the IDF announced that the IDF force had returned two shepherds to the Red Cross through the Contra crossing, in accordance with the instructions of the political echelon.
The shepherds were arrested by IDF forces in recent weeks as part of a series of initiated ambush by forces east of the border fence with Syria, after the shepherds crossed the border line into Israeli territory.
Syrian citizens were handed over to Syria after a prisoner held in a prison in Israel, a resident of Israel who considers himself a Syrian, refused to be released and transferred to Syrian territory.
It will be recalled that in the context of the affair that was revealed yesterday and based on reports in the Arab media, the Israeli who was taken prisoner is apparently a 25-year-old ultra-Orthodox young woman, a former seminary resident and a resident of Kiryat Sefer Makor (Modi'in Illit).
From what is known so far, she is unsettled, and according to some sources she was involved in a virtual romantic affair with a Syrian citizen.