INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday met with Russian-Israeli national Alexander Troufanov, who was freed earlier this year after being
was among the hostages freed in February after 498 days in captivity as part of an Israeli-Hamas ceasefire deal
He appeared at the Kremlin meeting alongside his mother, Yelena Troufanova, and fiance Sapir Cohen, who were also kidnapped on Oct
and the Palestinian authorities, as well as with Hamas, which Moscow does not consider a terrorist organization
Putin has repeatedly called for the establishment of a Palestinian state as a long-term resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The
Troufanov family emigrated from Russia to Israel in the late 1990s
Berel Lazar and the head of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, Alexander Boroda, also attended the Kremlin meeting.A Message
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