Media reports have said thousands of tourists - including Israelis - regularly take photos of the palace. The couple was arrested in Istanbul last week after they photographed Erdogan’s palace in Istanbul while on tour and sent the photo to their family. They then headed to their home in Modiin, where they were greeted by a crowd of relatives and supporters, many of whom wore T-shirts printed with a photograph of the couple. The Foreign Ministry sent a jet, along with two senior consular officials, to bring the pair back and they arrived in Israel shortly after 6 a.m. Turkey’s private DHA news agency reported that a Turkish citizen who was arrested along with the couple was also released, in an apparent reference to their tour guide.Ī transcript of a call between Bennett, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and the family on Thursday showed the couple’s joy and gratitude at returning home and being reunited with their children. There was no official statement from Turkish officials. The development ended a saga that had involved concrete fears the pair would be in Turkish jail for many years.
Related: Israeli couple arrive home after being held in Turkish prison as suspected spies I want to get back to bus line 83, to all my passengers who know me and support me,” Natali said at a press conference on Thursday morning. I love my passengers and want to get back to work already. Natali and Mordy Oknin (C), an Israeli couple who had been jailed for photographing the Turkish president’s palace, arrive at their home in Modiin, on November 18, 2021. Natali had featured in advertising campaigns for Egged over the years, and their work colleagues dismissed the notion that they were involved in espionage as ridiculous.
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Israel firmly and formally rejected the allegation that the Oknins, both of whom are bus drivers for the Egged company, were spies. The Oknins had been freed from a Turkish prison earlier in the day and returned to Israel on a private jet sent by the government to bring them home.
I didn’t think I would get home alive,” she said.Īsked if she would again visit Turkey, she responded: “I don’t intend to leave Israel in the near future!” “I didn’t have air to breathe… I felt that my world had ended. Natali Oknin also said she had panic attacks in prison. “We didn’t know how it would end… but we always believed we would get home and that the State of Israel wouldn’t leave us there alone,” he said. Her husband said the two were held alone at different prisons. Natali (center) and Mordy Oknin (right), an Israeli couple who had been jailed for photographing the Turkish president’s palace, seen after their arrival in their home in Modiin, on November 18, 2021.
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