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Aviem Sella
Aviem Sella giving a lecture in Herzliya in 2012. (Screenshot: YouTube)
January 20, 2021, 10:01 am
At Israel’s request, Trump pardons Israeli handler of spy Jonathan Pollard
Aviem Sella one of 73 people granted clemency; 70 have sentences commuted; list doesn’t include Trump or family; several Jewish convicts pardoned, incl. Lakewood Ponzi schemer
By TOI staff
Rafi Eitan on August 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
March 23, 2019, 6:30 pm
Rafi Eitan, ex-minister and legendary spy who captured Eichmann, dies aged 92
A former Shin Bet and Mossad officer, Eitan was also famous for being the handler of American-Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard; Netanyahu mourns ‘hero of Israeli intel community’
By TOI staff
A mural in Gaza City in 2012 shows (left) Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, killed by Israel in a March 2004 missile strike, and PLO chief Yasser Arafat, who died of a mysterious illness in November of the same year (Wissam Nassar/Flash90)
January 26, 2018, 9:46 am
How Israel’s leaders use targeted killings to try to ‘stop history’
Ronen Bergman, author of ‘Rise and Kill First,’ a revelatory history of Israeli strikes on individual enemies, dissects his discoveries and their often discomfiting implications
By David Horovitz
Jonathan Pollard in a December 17, 1997, photo with Israel's communications minister Limor Livnat, who visited him in prison in Butner, North Carolina (photo credit: AP/ Ayala Bar)
November 20, 2015, 7:54 am
Jonathan Pollard, Jewish-American spy for Israel, going free after 30 years
Initially shunted aside but then adopted by Israel and demonized by parts of US defense establishment, agent finally being released Friday in a case that has haunted bilateral ties
By Mitch Ginsburg
Rafi Eitan, a former senior Shin Bet and Mossad officer, ran Pollard (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
November 30, 2014, 11:20 pm
Peres, Rabin knew Pollard was planted in US armed forces, handler says
Rafi Eitan admits for the first time Israeli leaders were aware of his activities, says he doesn’t regret turning Pollard in
By Mitch Ginsburg
Protesters outside the house of then-president Shimon Peres in 2011 call for the release of Jonathan Pollard from a US jail. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 3, 2014, 12:59 am
The operational fiasco at the heart of the Pollard affair
Whatever becomes of him in the current twists and turns, Jonathan Jay Pollard was ill served throughout by his Israeli handlers
By Mitch Ginsburg
Anne Pollard (screen capture: Channel 10)
March 2, 2014, 12:17 am
Anne Pollard: Israel abandoned, betrayed us
Ex-wife of spy Jonathan Pollard says she can barely make ends meet; ‘Give me a chance to live the life I deserve,’ she pleads
By TOI staff
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