Jonathan Pollard

Ex-spy Jonathan Pollard joins politics, calls to annex Gaza Strip

Pollard, who had spent 30 years in prison for spying and providing Israel with top-secret classified information, has has since become a strong critic of Netanyahu.

MAY 6, 2026|ByKESHET NEEV

Jonathan Pollard seen during a tour of the Sovereignty movement and the Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council in the Jordan Valley, in the West Bank on February 12, 2023.

(L-R): Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee

Ex-spy Jonathan Pollard, US envoy Mike Huckabee held secret meeting at US Jerusalem embassy

Pollard told The Jerusalem Post that the meeting was a personal affair to thank the ambassador for private matters, and emphasized that the event was taken out of context.

NOVEMBER 20, 2025|ByCORINNE BAUM, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

JONATHAN POLLARD, photographed this week in his Jerusalem home.

'I learned to be tough': Pollard says lifetime of US antisemitism pushed him to spy for Israel

From being bullied in school to his Navy intelligence commander, Jonathan Pollard described how antisemitism shaped his life in the United States.

NOVEMBER 20, 2025|ByMORDECHAI HAIMOVITZ, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

IDF operates in West Bank, September 9, 2025.

Why Smotrich’s 82% sovereignty plan over the West Bank is not enough - opinion

The fact of the matter is that unless all the Arabs occupying the territories are expelled, say, to Syria, their threat to our people will remain.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2025|ByJONATHAN POLLARD

Pollard pleads against strict parole conditions

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised Pollard’s fate with US Vice President Mike Pence in Washington last month.

MARCH 2, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN

Ambassador Dermer to liaison with White House on Pollard

Pollard is currently appealing a court decision to not ease the parole conditions.

FEBRUARY 19, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN, TOVAH LAZAROFF

Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard leaves a federal courthouse in New York

Free Pollard, really

Despite a decades-long campaign to achieve his freedom, Pollard has not been living in freedom for the past year, but rather on parole terms that make a mockery of the word.

DECEMBER 21, 2016ByJPOST EDITORIAL

Cruel and unusual

Let Pollard spend the rest of his days in Israel.

NOVEMBER 19, 2016ByJPOST EDITORIAL

US blames ‘Post’ Pollard interview in ’86 for strict incarceration, parole

The interview Pollard gave in 1986 to Post correspondent Wolf Blitzer was claimed at the time of sentencing to be in violation of a plea agreement he had signed.

NOVEMBER 18, 2016ByGIL HOFFMAN