State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss is completing a report pertaining to efforts to obtain the release of Jonathan Pollard. Part of the report is based on testimony from Pollard’s father, Prof. Morris Pollard, who came to Israel to testify in November, adding his statements to some 25 others interviewed for the comprehensive report, which concludes the governments of Israel did not do enough to obtain his release. Some of the public officials questioned for the report, which will remain classified, include former prime ministers.
Most of the classified report will not be released to the general public and it was prepared by the security division of the State Comptroller’s Office, headed by retired IDF major-general, Mendy Ohr.
Former defense ministers and other senior government ministers were investigated in the scope of the report, seeking to learn what was done in Israel and perhaps more importantly, in the United States towards obtaining Pollard’s release.
While the comptroller does not state conclusively that efforts fell short, he does signal the government could have and should have done more, stating efforts on Pollard’s behalf were “barely enough” the daily HaMevaser reports.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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It is not in Israel’s national interest to see Pollard released and openly talking to the press. It would like nothing better than the U.S. to forget that Israel ever tried to recruit someone to spy against its #1 ally.