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.

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

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

IDF operates in West Bank, September 9, 2025.

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


My Word: Stopping to smell the roses of 2020

Even a year like 2020 had its positive moments, of course. Both on a national level and on a very personal level, there were good and bad things.

STAFF AT Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov) sing and dance along with performer Ivri Lider to celebrate the start of the mass vaccination program.

Pollard is finally free from his discriminatory experience

Pollard is not a hero in the conventional sense.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu meets Jonathan Pollard at Ben-Gurion Airport early Wednesday morning.

Welcome to Israel, Jonathan Pollard

Pollard’s arrival in Israel will now hopefully put an end to one of the most difficult chapters in US-Israeli relations.

Jonathan Pollard

Jonathan Pollard: Former Jewish spy lands in Israel 35 years after arrest

Pollard and his wife, Esther, will live in Jerusalem. A source close to the family said the former spy will not enter politics.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Johnathan Pollard at Ben-Gurion Airport after making aliyah.

Pollard’s return gets a bug in US-Israel ties out of the way - analysis

Ever since Pollard’s arrest 35 years ago, his case has been a fly in the ointment of the US-Israel relationship.

Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer convicted of spying for Israel, exits following a hearing at the Manhattan Federal Courthouse in New York City, May 17, 2017

Will Pollard be poisoned by politics? - analysis

Pollard is now a free man and an electoral asset. If he wants to be in the Knesset, he can get in relatively easily.

Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard departs US District court after a hearing with his wife Elaine Zeitz in the Manhattan borough of New York December 14, 2015.

The Pollard puzzle: A pension but no parade - opinion

When a defendant, no matter how guilty, is punished too harshly, justice miscarries.

JONATHAN POLLARD arrives at US District Court in New York City in 2016.

Come home, Jonathan Pollard

From the moment that Pollard was sentenced in March of 1987, he was subjected to what can only be described as “cruel and unusual punishment.”

‘FOR THE majority of the Jewish world, Jonathan Pollard (pictured in 2016 in New York) was toxic.’

Donald Trump's legacy leaves behind poisoned gifts for Israel - opinion

Most Democrats don't support BDS, but they are against banning it. Pompeo's claim that it is inherently antisemitic only serves to harm Israel's interests.

US President Donald Trump gestures while boarding Air Force One as he departs Washington for campaign travel to Iowa at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, US, October 14, 2020.

Understanding Ehud Olmert's disdain for Jonathan Pollard – opinion

It would seem the liberal intelligentsia have decided it was time to show their face once more and attack the release of Jonathan Pollard

JONATHAN POLLARD arrives at US District Court in New York City in 2016.