Russian President Vladimir Putin, who arrived in Israel for the World Holocaust Forum on Thursday, said in a joint press statement alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that "everything will be okay" regarding the case of a jailed Israeli woman held in Russia on drug charges.

Putin made the statement after he met with Yaffa Issachar, the mother of 26-year-old Naama who has been sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for carrying hashish into the Moscow airport en route to Israel from India.