Da! She must have imigrated from Russia. Her names implies that! What a piece of news Ynet..

No she's not Russian - she is a Jewess from Russia. Russian Jews and Russians are not the same. Russian Jews are Jews - their ethnicity is Jewish and their origins is in the Levant in the Middle East. Russians are Slavs and they have nothing to do with Russian Jews who originate from the Middle East. Many Jews have adopted local names. In Moslem countries they adopted Arab, Turkish or Iranian names. In Europe, they adopted Russian, Polish, Hungarian, German, French, Italian or English names. Their ethnicity however is still Jewish. Either you are deliberately trying to provoke us or you are simply mentally challenged and ignorant. However I strongly urge you to 1) get yourself an education and 2) stay the hell out of our business.

Or Mizrahi, or Tzanani, or Knafo, for that matter...

@ Tahl : you have a very bad idea on sfaradim ! As many others you are totally wrong Two French physicists won Physics Nobel Prize 1997 : Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (born in Algeria) 2012 : Serge Haroche (born in Marocco)

If the Jews from Arab countries had the same opportunities to learn classical music or chess, or science like the Jews from Former Soviet Union had they would succeed no less. They developed and mastered other talents. Mazal Tov to Masha Klinova and kol Am Israel.

she came from russia as a russian jew when she was a child. she was educated in israel, in school and in university both. so, she is a jew educated in israel and not in russia. big difference.

RUSSIAN JEW FROM ISRAEL beats russian goy from russia.

what is this sort of racial slur? I would understand if it carried some mind provoking thoughts... Like it would be great if it motivated some goim to take up chess to beat their Jewish opponents at the board. But such entries hardly help. It's just a dirty talk that has a net effect of someone going out and killing a Jewish person.