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By Tzvi Fishman
Today, the State of Israel is at a crucial crossroads.
By Josh Wander
Jonathan Pollard talks about antisemitism in the USA.
Jonathan Pollard and Rabbi David Bar-Hayim discuss the Houthis and what Israel should do, and why the Americans and coalition aren't doing much yet.
A court previously ruled that Pollard didn't meet any of the eligibility criteria for being approved for a gun license.
The judge ruled, despite his personal sacrifice and contribution to the state of Israel, Pollard doesn't meet any of the minimum eligibility requirements.
Esther Pollard died of cancer on Jan. 31, 2022. Monday marked the first anniversary of her death on the Hebrew calendar.
Nine months after his wife Esther passed away, Jonathan Pollard remarried on Thursday evening to Rivka Abrahams-Donin, in Jerusalem.
Jonathan told over Esther's conversations with him about the Geula and what Israel needs to do to keep safe.
"My Neshama volunteered to come back for two missions. One of the missions was to get you home, the other mission was..."
By dvora
Esther called their marriage "an oasis of unconditional love in a sea of lies and corruption.
Esther Pollard had been battling cancer and recently caught the Coronavirus.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Her husband, Jonathan, has asked that the public pray for her speedy recovery: Esther Yocheved Bat Reisel Bracha.
By Israel Hayom
“I feel a very personal connection to this place and to Joseph who is buried here, and everything he went through,” says Jonathan Pollard, while dedicating the scroll at the biblical burial site.
By Israel Hayom
In an exclusive interview, Jonathan Pollard describes coming home to Israel after decades in prison in the United States.
Jonathan Pollard arrives in Israel, kisses the ground, accepts his Teudat Zehut and receives a blessing.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The report quoted three unnamed former senior US officials.
By JNi.Media
"He loved his country with all his might and knew the challenges of the State of Israel."
By JNi.Media
An American source stated in response to the story that the Pollard affair should not be linked to the peace agreement.
By JNi.Media
Barkat told the Pollards, "Since Jonathan is not allowed to go to Jerusalem, the eternal city of the Jewish people will come to him in New York or anywhere else in the world."
A federal court on Wednesday will hear arguments that the conditions prevent him from working and force him to violate Jewish law.
By JNi.Media
The NY Times has pushed a persistent, relentless campaign to keep Pollard in jail for many years now.
Anne Pollard, the "forgotten" Pollard who was jailed along with her husband Jonathan but for a shorter time, is suing the Israeli government for millions of dollars for allegedly abandoning her. Anne Pollard served 3 years and 4 months in prison, out of a five-year term, while her husband's life sentence in jail was curtailed […]
By JNi.Media
You are welcome to send Jonathan all that’s in your heart, tell him about your activities and your prayers for him over the years, and it is also possible to attach a photo...
Pollard, now 61, also is not allowed to leave the United States for five years.
By JNi.Media
Under the terms of Jonathan Pollard’s release, due this Nov. 20, he must remain in US territory for five years, under supervision, which would preclude any plans of making aliyah.
Another Jewish property in Silwan valley, where the British expelled Yemenite Jews 77 years ago, once again is in Jewish hands.
The White House said Pollard's serious crimes' preclude his being allowed to travel abroad.
By JNi.Media
The film will be based on Martin Blank’s play “The Law Of Return,” about Pollard’s work for the US Navy, and the process of his becoming a spy.
Netanyahu called Pollard's wife over news of his impending release from prison.
By Rachel Levy
Former Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard will be freed in November after spending 30 years in a U.S. prison.
By JNi.Media
Rumsfeld tweeted on Monday: “Releasing spy Jonathan Pollard doesn’t make the #IranDeal any less of a disaster for Israel & the free world.”
He has returned to jail, “home” for the past 30 years.
Jonathan Pollard was hospitalized on Friday after losing consciousness in his cell.
Pollard hit American where it hurts the most.
Bnei Akiva religious youth members joined forces with far left Meretz youth group members on July 4, 2011, to protest in front of the US Consulate in Israel, calling for the release of Jonathan Pollard. That was years ago, and as of today, Pollard has now spent 30 years in jail. Enough is enough.
The US Federal Prison's website no longer say Pollard will be released in November 2015.
Israel's President Ruby Rivlin recites Slichot, the prayers for forgiveness that are said leading up to Yom Kippur. This slichot prayer session was held at the President's official residence. Speaking of presidential pardons, it would be good if this were the year that Jonathan Pollard was let free.
By Rachel Levy
President Obama told Israeli President Peres that his attorney general will decide whether to free Pollard. But the A-G can't grant clemency.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Peres said, "It is a national responsibility to work to free Pollard, I will speak to the President of the United States on behalf of the people of Israel."
Even American security officials are joining the growing chorus of intellectuals and public figures who say enough is enough
Jonathan Pollard is praying for the safe return of the kidnapped boys, and has asked that Jews around the world do the same, according to a Jerusalem Post report. Eyal Yifrach (19), Gilad Sha'ar (16) and Naftali Frankel (16) were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on Thursday night.
By Dov Gilor
Spies who caused American deaths and worked for enemy states received lighter sentences than Pollard.
What won’t we do for the privilege of chatting with Mahmoud Abbas for another half year?
By Leo Rennert
Rudoren and the Times are determined to go the extra mile to humanize Barghouti.
Al-Quds reporter outraged by precedent of releasing Pollard - guilty of espionage, but not murder.
Feel sorry for Pollard. He is doomed in jail but would feel doomed if freed in exchange for prisoners and “peace talks.”
By JoeSettler
Obama's prisoner exchange proposal is reminiscent of the Gilad Shalit deal. The primary difference is where the hostage is being held.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah talk about a recent trip to Tel Aviv, a weapons-laden ship captured by the IDF, being Jewish in Ukraine, and Jonathan Pollard's ailing health.
Jonathan Pollard was rushed to a hospital from his North Carolina prison cell.
I was the first person, save for his family and attorney, to make contact with Jonathan Pollard after his arrest.
By JTA
Hundreds of demonstrators calling for the release of Jonathan Pollard rallied outside the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv. The demonstration on Sunday night was led by Pollard’s wife, Esther. “How is it that in spite of all the gestures that Israel is making at the request of the U.S., the Americans are not willing to […]
Hundreds of Israelis participated in a protest in front of the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, demanding freedom for Jonathan Pollard on Feb 23, 2014.
By JTA
Elliott Abrams, a former U.S. deputy national security advisor, said Jonathan Pollard should be released from prison. “I think that there is a just and a humanitarian case for his release,” Abrams told i24 news, an international 24-hour news and current affairs television channel based in Tel Aviv, in an interview Friday. Pollard is in […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will demand from President Barack Obama that he free Jonathan Pollard from jail as a condition for the next scheduled release of Palestinian Authority terrorists, according to Israel’s Channel 2 television. The office of the Prime Minister has not commented on the report, which did not quote a specific source. Channel […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has gone from “soft” to “harsh” in his calculated reaction to revelations that the National Security Agency spied on former Israel prime ministers. Apparently feeling in a minority amid the reactions of insults and rage to the idea that the United States would spy on its ally, which is what every […]
By Paula Stern
You dare to hold Jonathan Pollard in prison for 29 years for spying on an ally...when you've been doing the same thing all along?
By JTA
Bill Richardson, the former U.N. ambassador known for his efforts to release American captives overseas, called on President Obama to free Jonathan Pollard immediately. In a Dec. 10 letter to Obama, whom he endorsed after dropping out of the 2008 presidential race, Richardson noted that an increasing number of figures involved in government when Pollard […]
Famous Israeli Hollywood producer finally admits he was a spy for Israel and helped his country acquire the technology for nuclear weapons
By Moshe Herman
Yishai is joined by Rabbi Pesach Lerner, the personal Rabbi of Jonathan Pollard. Lerner gives a personal update on Pollard and efforts to have him released.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah talk about exploring breaking bad agreements both personally and nationally, Jonathan Pollard’s recently released op-ed, and how to graduate to the next level in the upcoming New Year.
Apparently only the Palestinian Authority is to receive "gestures" for peace talks.
The US has kept Pollard in jail for 28 years. The same US is twisting Israel’s arm to free more than 80 terrorists, and Minister Uri Ariel, understandably, cannot understand the American mind.
Weiner pleased the crowd, using continuously Hebrew and Yiddish phrases – such as Mikva, Kishkas and Eretz Yisroel.
Supporters for the release of Jonathan Pollard from his U.S. federal prison cell are planning a large rally at 6:30 p.m. in Israel on Tuesday in another effort to convince President Barack Obama to free him after nearly 10,000 days in jail. The demonstrators will stand across the Jerusalem residence of President Shimon Peres, who […]
It is unthinkable that Israelis should look at Jonathan through American eyes.
Miss Israel calls Obama her role model, will ask him to release Pollard. Pollards issue statement asking Israelis to show Obama 'all due respect and honor.'
We'll be here, Mr. President, long after you have turned to dust, your memory not even a breeze in the wind.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Monday with Esther Pollard, wife of Jonathan Pollard and promised her he would bring up the subject of her husband’s life imprisonment when President Barack Obama visits later this month, “The time has long since come for Jonathan to go free,” the Prime Minister said. “This issue will come up […]
Arab MK Haneen Zoabi (Balad) doesn’t allow us to flee from ourselves. She holds an intelligent, scathing and vital mirror to our faces.
Obama, don't come...or at least have the decency to bring Jonathan Pollard home.
Despite the admissions and the remorse, Jonathan continues to remain in jail for a period of time unparalleled in its harshness.
The goal is 100,000.
Former Israeli Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau wrote President Barack Obama that God, via the American people, “appointed you…President of the United States,” and that as a defender of freedom, he should release Jonathan Pollard from prison more than 28 years. Rabbi Lau quoted from chapter 14 in the First Book of Samuel, which refers […]
EMET focuses its attention on educating members of Congress about issues crucial to Jews and to Israel.
At the last minute, the Secretary of Defense presented a memo to the court accusing Pollard of doing massive damage to the U.S.
After a week of medical tests in the hospital, Jonathan Pollard was returned on Sunday to his prison cell. After falling seriously ill a week ago, Pollard was taken to a hospital were tests were performed,including an MRI of his brain. The results are not yet in, but his condition stabilized enough that the authorities […]
PM Netanyahu said today at a cabinet meeting that, "a Palestinian state will not be established until they recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people along with a decision to end the conflict. Israel will not let Judea and Samaria turn into a terror base where missiles will be launched at Israel." In […]
The committee to release Jonathan Pollard says the Jewish spy was hospitalized after he had collapsed in prison. His condition is unknown. His wife was informed by the prison authorities a short while ago. A source inside the committee told Ynet that over the past few weeks Pollard has been suffering great pain, but it […]
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah talk about a recent special guest to their home along with Secretary of State HIllary Clinton's trip to Israel.
By JTA
Supporters of Jonathan Pollard called Hillary Clinton's remarks rejecting his possible clemency "a resounding slap in the face" to Israel's leaders and its people.
Hillary Clinton: He was sentenced to life in prison. He is serving that sentence, and I do not have any expectation that that is going to change.
By Tzvi Fishman
Shimon Peres had the decency to ask Mr. Obama to finally free Jonathan Pollard. The White House refused. But now that Shimon Peres, the symbol of Jewish Recognition and Acceptance, has been so accepted and embraced by the President of America, you would think that the Jews of America would finally raise their long silent voices and scream out for his release.
By JTA
A bipartisan letter is circulating in the U.S. House of Representatives soliciting signatures on a letter to President Obama asking him to commute Pollard's sentence to time served. The "Dear Colleague" letter is signed by veteran House members Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Christopher Smith (R-N.J.).
On Wednesday, Shimon Peres will receive the Medal of Freedom. I urge him to thank President Obama and the United States and then, on Thursday, to go visit Jonathan Pollard and give the Medal of Freedom to him. Freedom is nothing if it is at the expense of others; justice for some is not enough. Israel cannot accept such an honor from the United States so long as the US continues to hold Jonathan Pollard in captivity.
The Jewish Press urges readers to sign a circulating petition that calls on Shimon Peres to do all he can, in advance of accepting the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama, to persuade Mr. Obama to free Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli spy serving a life sentence in a federal prison. (President Obama announced last month that he would be awarding the Medal to Mr. Peres, the president of Israel, in June.)
By JTA
Top U.S. Jewish organizations joined the call on President Obama to release Jonathan Pollard because of his reported illness. "A few months ago we visited Jonathan Pollard in prison and came away concerned about his health and the medical challenges he faced," said a letter sent this week to Obama from Richard Stone, the chairman […]
By Moshe Herman
Special Pesach edition kicks off with Yishai and Malkah sharing the story of their own inspiring journey into Pesach 5772. Then Yishai is joined by Shmuel Sackett, the International Director of Manhigut Yehudit, who tells the moving story of his personal discussions with Jonathan Pollard during visits to see him in prison. The third segment of this week’s show features the true meaning of Pesach, presented by David Sacks, a television writer and producer for The Simpsons, 3rd Rock From the Sun, and more. Finally, Yehuda HaKohen talks about how love breeds courage and destroys fear, and gives an example with a masterful presentation of the history of the Lehi movement.
By JTA
Israeli President Shimon Peres met with the wife of Jonathan Pollard, who asked Peres to request her husband's release "before it is too late." Along with her came MK Uri Ariel (National Union) who delivered a petition for Pollard's release, signed by more than 80 Knesset members. Esther Pollard met with Peres in Jerusalem on […]
Several weeks ago it was reported that Robert “Bud” McFarlane, President Ronald Reagan's national security adviser at the time of the Pollard arrest and obviously someone privy to all the information known to the government – wrote a letter to President Obama asking that Mr. Pollard’s sentence be commuted to time served.
Pollard has served 27 years in federal prison, seven in solitary confinement.
June 19, 2026 
