Following talks with Israel, which also included the personal involvement of President Yitzhak Herzog and Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman, he also had ties with senior members of the Belarussian government.
Last Monday, President Herzog called Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and called for his intervention to bring about the release of Reitlan-Stoll soon. As far as is known, Lukashenko complied with the request and ordered that her trial be brought forward with a relatively light sentence, contrary to concerns.
Throughout the period of detention, members of the Israeli Embassy in Belarus visited her in detention, provided her with medication and were in daily contact with the family. The diplomat Yaffa Olivetsky, who serves in Moscow, came to Belarus specifically to fill the place of the Israeli ambassador and accompanied Stoll on the trial and on her way to the airport.
Attorney Sharon Nahari, who represented the family, said after her release that “the day is over, a long and exhausting struggle, for the release of Adv. Maya Reiten-Stoll and her return to Israel to her family. For two hectic months of hard work around the clock, in collaboration with a local lawyer, a colleague from the European Bar Association. “All the parties who assisted in the matter, the President of the State, officials in the government and the Knesset of Israel, officials in Belarus and the head of the Israel Bar Association.”
Yaffa Olivetsky, acting Israeli ambassador to Belarus, who accompanied the Naama Issachar affair in Moscow, said: “We already understood on Tuesday that it was heading for liberation. “Of the Israeli Ministry of Health were accepted. That you come to Belarus with medicines you have to arrive in an orderly manner, translated, verified, with a doctor’s prescription and therefore it got complicated in this way.”
“Her detention conditions according to what I talked to her were quite reasonable. There were no special complaints on her part. It is a prison. It is not pleasant. At one point she was transferred to a prison 70 km from Minsk and then there was intervention by the Foreign Ministry, the ambassador and we asked the authorities to return Her to the prison in Minsk and they complied with the request and returned her. She was released in court. It was very moving, she burst into tears. Her brothers burst into tears. There was a great sense of relief and release. The Belarusian judge convicted her and also ruled that there was an offense here but due to the nature and clauses that the lawyers activated – he complied with their request and imposed a fine on her and that was it. It is important to say that it was a big and important job and we should thank Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman and President Yitzhak Herzog and the Minsk embassy staff and the ambassador. “