JERUSALEM -- The nightmare began with a simple occurrence over the summer -- a telephone ringing in Ronen's home on the northern coast. A Foreign Ministry official was on the line.

"It was like the world fell on my head," Ronen said. "He told me: `Your daughter is in prison in Japan for importation of drugs.'"

"I said, `It's not true, someone stole her passport.'"

But the news was real.

His 24-year-old daughter, Dorit, had been stopped at Tokyo airport for allegedly bringing 11 pounds of hashish from India hidden inside picture frames.

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