{"id":27070,"date":"2015-11-20T07:20:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T13:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=27070"},"modified":"2015-11-22T09:21:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T15:21:04","slug":"jonathan-pollard-freed-after-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/jonathan-pollard-freed-after-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Pollard freed after 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA)\u00a0\u2014 Jonathan Pollard, the former Navy intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Israel, was freed from a federal prison in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27071\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jonathan-pollard.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27071\" class=\"wp-image-27071 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jonathan-pollard-300x198.png\" alt=\"Jonathan Pollard (YouTube)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jonathan-pollard-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jonathan-pollard.png 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27071\" class=\"wp-image-27071 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jonathan-pollard-300x198.png\" alt=\"Jonathan Pollard (YouTube)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jonathan-pollard-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jonathan-pollard.png 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-27071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Pollard (YouTube)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pollard was released on parole early Friday after serving 30 years of a life sentence for passing classified documents to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>His imprisonment has long been a sore point in relations between the United States and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Successive Israeli prime ministers have raised the issue in their meetings with U.S. presidents. In recent years, support in the U.S. political establishment has grown for his release, although the security community remained adamantly opposed, saying the breadth of his spying fully merited his life sentence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people of Israel welcome the release of Jonathan Pollard,\u201d Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs someone who raised Jonathan\u2019s case for years with successive American presidents, I had long hoped this day would come,\u201d he said. \u201cAfter three long and difficult decades, Jonathan has been reunited with his family. May this Sabbath bring him much joy and peace that will continue in the years and decades ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pollard will not be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2015\/11\/18\/news-opinion\/united-states\/pollard-will-need-us-govt-permission-to-travel-for-as-long-as-5-years\" target=\"_blank\">permitted<\/a> to leave the United States for as long as five years under federal parole rules, although he has asked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2015\/11\/17\/news-opinion\/united-states\/pollard-offers-to-renounce-u-s-citizenship-if-allowed-to-go-to-israel\" target=\"_blank\">immigrate<\/a> to Israel, saying he would relinquish his U.S. citizenship and agree never to return to the United States as a condition.<\/p>\n<p>Pollard needs the prior agreement of his probation office to leave the \u201cdistrict of release,\u201d the Justice Department has said, although it has not defined the area. It is not yet clear where this is. His lawyers, Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman, have<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2015\/11\/16\/news-opinion\/united-states\/what-to-know-about-jonathan-pollards-release\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> they have arranged a residence and employment for him in the New York City area.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his probation officer\u2019s say-so, he needs the U.S. Parole Commission\u2019s permission to travel overseas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Jonathan%20Pollard%20freed%20after%2030%20years\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27,25],"tags":[8781,8790,8795,1351,8788,518],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27072,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27070\/revisions\/27072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}