As President Obama’s trip to Israel approaches, supermodel Bar Refaeli has added her name to the 155,000 signatures on a petition supporting the release of Jonathan Pollard. Pollard is currently serving his 28th year in a United States prison for selling top-secret information to Israel when serving as a US Naval intelligence analyst. While Pollard is up for parole in 2015, many Israelis and Americans have called for his early release, believing that he has served enough time for passing secrets to an …More

Venezuela's secret service, SEBIN, is spying on the country's Jewish community, according to leaked documents said to be from the spy agency. Last week, Analisis24, a right-leaning Argentinean news website, released 50 documents attributed to the Venezuelan intelligence agency containing private information on prominent Venezuelan Jews, local Jewish organizations and Israeli diplomats in Latin America. The Anti-Defamation League, among others, believes the documents are authentic based on the wealth of detailed …More

Her screams could be heard all across Zichron Ya’akov, Israel. It was October 1917, and Sarah Aaronsohn, member of a Jewish spy ring, was being tortured by Ottoman officers. She had been caught passing secrets about the Ottomans to the British, whom the Jews thought would grant them an eventual homeland in Eretz Israel. Now Aaronsohn would have to speak up about all that she knew, or face the consequences. She chose the latter. After four days of torture, Aaronsohn asked if she could return home for a …More

Eliahu Cohen, an Egyptian-born Jew who served as a legendary Mossad spy in Syria, was publicly hanged in a Damascus square on May 18, 1965. As his limp body dangled from a post, a poster in Arabic dangled from his body. It proclaimed to a crowd of crowd of 10,000 spectators Cohen’s crime: espionage for the Israelis. The Syrian authorities knew there was a mole within their midst, someone leaking army secrets to Israel in the lead-up to the 1967 Six Day War. But Cohen, who went by Eli, was an unlikely …More

CIA debriefers of Jonathan Pollard said the Israeli spy cooperated "in good faith" while in custody and that his handlers' requests were limited to intelligence on the Pakistanis, Arab states and the Soviets. The 1987 CIA damage assessment, published for the first time in a newly declassified version by the National Security Archive, a George Washington University project, recorded Pollard as "responding in good faith to debriefers' questions." Polygraphs "tended to confirm that his cooperation with US …More

Convicted spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard was undergoing observation in a hospital after collapsing in his jail cell. Pollard collapsed Saturday at the Federal Correction Institution in Butner, N.C., after complaining of being in serious pain for several weeks. He is receiving strong pain management medication, the Committee to Bring Jonathan Pollard Home told JTA in a statement. Doctors are set to hold more consultations and decide on further medical intervention, the statement said. The committee said that …More

Six accused Israeli collaborators were shot today in Gaza. The men were accused of spying for Israel, and shot one by one without trial or conviction. The bodies reportedly remained in a heap in the middle of the street, as hundreds gathered to kick and spit on the bodies. An incensed mob chanted “Spy! Spy!” according to the Times of Israel. A video of another accused Israeli conspirator being dragged from the back of a Hamas motorcycle was also circulating online today. Today’s actions came …More

Last week, the Israeli Supreme Court heard arguments concerning the appeal of Anat Kamm’s four and a half year sentence for leaking classified IDF documents. Kamm filed the appeal against her sentence last October. Last year Kamm was convicted of collecting, possessing and transferring classified information to Haaretz journalist Uri Blau. She was sentenced to four and a half years of imprisonment, with an additional one and a half year suspended sentence. Anat Kamm, the former IDF OC Central Command …More

Former CIA head James Woolsey is the latest figure to champion the cause of imprisoned spy Jonathan Pollard. In a letter to the editor of today’s Wall Street Journal, Woolsey wrote, “For those hung up for some reason on the fact that he's an American Jew, pretend he's a Greek- or Korean- or Filipino-American and free him.” Woolsey has a reputation for publishing his opinions in letters to the editor. In his writing, he pointed out that most recently-convicted spies do not receive life …More

Israeli President Shimon Peres announced his intention to bring up the case of Jonathan Pollard in a meeting with Barack Obama next week. Peres made the comment Monday during a sit down with families of fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism. The group urged the Israeli leader to reiterate the plight of Pollard, who is a convicted spy currently serving a life sentence in the US for attempting to sell intelligence to Israel. After his incarceration Pollard was made an official Israeli citizen and his defenders …More

The leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations visited with jailed spy Jonathan Pollard January 24. After speaking with Pollard, serving a life sentence for passing information to Israel, the Conference released a statement advocating for his release. Conference Chairman Richard Stone and his deputy, Malcolm Hoenlein, wrote, “We returned with a renewed commitment to work for Mr. Pollard’s release from incarceration in accordance with long-standing Conference policy. …More

Following suspicious activity, Mauritanian authorities uncovered a Mossad network within the African country. The network was involved in the assassination of Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai, reported the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar newspaper on Wednesday. Mauritanian media are naming the ring the “third largest” Mossad spy organization in the country’s history. Mauritanian daily Al-Huriyeh alleged that the network was behind the explosion of an Ethiopian airplane in Lebanon that …More