A demonstration for Jonathan Pollard was held on Monday evening (Apr. 9) in front of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, where U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is staying during his visit to Israel. The event marked 10,000 of Pollard's incarceration in an American prison. The protesters called on Kerry to act for Pollard's release. Pollard's wife, Esther, stated: "We can't comprehend the meaning of 10,000 days in prison. I request that he be showed compassion and mercy. It is impossible to fathom the remorse and …More

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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

President Barack Obama was interviewed by Israel’s Channel 2 news network in the days leading up to his trek to the Jewish state next week. Channel 2 aired the interview today, for a sit down covering topics like the two state solution and how the US plans to disengage a potentially nuclear Iran. “We think that it would take over a year or so for Iran to actually develop a nuclear weapon, but obviously we don’t want to cut it too close,” the president said. “So when I am consulting …More

Freed Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit joined the call on President Obama to release Israel's spy Jonathan Pollard. Shalit signed an online petition asking Obama to commute Pollard's life sentence to time served on Monday. "I have signed a petition, and call on you to do the same. Freedom is a great gift and privilege," Shalit posted on his Facebook status. "I thank those who worked for my release, and now I ask you to join the struggle to save Pollard." More than 150,000 Israelis have signed the petition so far. …More

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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

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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

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