By COLlive reporter
Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. intelligence analyst who provided top-secret classified information to Israel, will be released this Friday, November 20, 2015.
The 61-year-old has been serving a life sentence in a federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of espionage on June 4, 1986.
The release, scheduled for next Friday, caps a case that divided public opinion in Israel and America and has been a periodic source of legal and diplomatic wrangling between the two countries.
Under the terms of Pollard’s parole, he will be required to remain in the United States for five years following his release.
Israel’s Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Pollard’s attorneys called on President Barack Obama to exercise his powers of clemency to waive Pollard’s parole requirements and allow him to move to Israel immediately.
A White House spokesman announced that the president would not intervene.
Pollard’s plans aren’t immediately clear, Fox News reported. His lawyers said after the parole decision in July that he had lined up a job and housing in the New York area.
Now time to have Rubashkin freed
Boruch Hashem he will be free – but that doesn’t not mean he is a Tzadik.
He has suffered and his Mesiras Nefesh was likely on account of his Ahavas Yisroel.
If he comes to Crown Heights – he can begin to put on Tefilin and start learning Chassidus.
that he’s leaving prison. But he’s still a prisoner if he can’t leave the US.
I love your positive attitude. I hope you’re contagious, I want some of that!
We’ve been waiting for this day. Hope he will tell his story.
Never believed it would actually happen. That’s incredible!
JUST LIKE RUBASHKIN,OBAMA WONT INTERVENE, BUT LAST YEAR HE PARDONED HUNDREDS OF BLACK DRUG CONVICTS FROM LONG PRISON TERMS!!!
A LAME EXCUSE FROM A LAME DUCK PRESIDENT
Bishaa Tova Umutzleches!!!! Mazel Tov!!
finally.
I’m so happy for him
What a patient tzaddik.I hope he moves to Crown Heights and has many farbrengens.This generation can learn much from an Ish Emes ti bring MHM now!!!!!😃😆
Moshiach now