November 29, 2013 (JNS.org) Last Thurs, Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard entered his 29th year in American prison. He was arrested in Washington on Nov. 21, 1985 and later convicted of spying for Israel and is the only person in U.S. history to receive a life sentence for spying for an American ally. On Nov. 20, Pollard's wife Esther appealed to Obama to free her husband out of humanitarian considerations, and ahead of Obama's visit to Israel in March, more than 200,000 Israelis signed a petition to the American leader calling for Pollard's release. Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky said last Wed, "It is our collective failure that Pollard is still in prison. It is unprecedented in the history of the U.S. that someone who spied for a friendly country served even half the time Pollard has.
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