Jonathan Pollard reportedly to speak with Jewish leaders

Freed spy-for-Israel Jonathan Pollard is reportedly to address Jewish leaders next week, and has received a more Shabbat-friendly electronic monitoring bracelet.

Pollard will speak to members of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations next week in New York, the Forward says, citing unnamed sources informed about the event.

The meeting will also include US Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Eliot Engel, both New York Democrats. The meeting will discuss, in part, efforts to ease Pollard’s parole conditions, in which the congressmen have been actively involved, the report says.

Notice of the meeting does not appear on the website of the Presidents Conference, which reportedly informed member organizations of the event by phone rather than by the usual email. This may have been done to prevent news about the meeting from being leaked, an unnamed official tells the Forward.

— JTA