Fida Kiwan, the Israeli woman sentenced to death for drug smuggling in the United Arab Emirates will not be executed but will serve a prison sentence instead, a senior Israeli official said.
Israel does not view her arrest and conviction as a diplomatic crisis but as a criminal incident, and the matter did not come up in the conversations between Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and other senior Israeli diplomats and their counterparts in the UAE.
Israeli officials with knowledge of the affair do not expect political leaders to take action for her release from prison and deportation to Israel.
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