By COLlive reporter
Hevenu shalom aleichem.
Jonathan Pollard, who has been languishing in American prisons for passing classified documents to Israel, was finally able to make aliya to the land of Israel, early Wednesday morning.
The parole of the former U.S. Navy analyst ended this past month, allowing him to board a private jet from Newark International Airport in New Jersey and landing at Ben Gurion International Airport.
“Welcome home,” tweeted Israel Hayom editor Boaz Bismuth, alongside a photo of Pollard and his wife Esther who is undergoing rounds of chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer.
Pollard, 66, passed thousands of crucial US documents to Israel in the mid-1980s for monetary compesation.
A CIA declassified document credited information from Pollard with helping Israel plan a deadly raid on the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s Tunis headquarters in October 1985.
Pollard was arrested in 1985 and sentenced to life in prison, Times of Israel noted. He was eventually released in 2015, but was kept in the United States by parole rules and not allowed to travel to Israel.
His lawyer, Eliot Lauer, told The Times of Israel that the termination of his parole likely required a “wink and a nod” from the highest levels of the White House.
Pollard’s move to Israel comes despite his previous accusations that Israel had not done enough to secure his release.
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Chasdai Hashem, sooo happy
May his wife have a complete refuah.
Mamash Moshiach Tzeiten!! We will ALL be saying Shehechiyanu very very soon B’ezras Hashem!!!
Amen