The Algemeiner reports: As the US seeks to revive the long-dormant Middle East peace process, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked the Trump administration to let freed spy Jonathan Pollard move to Israel, the Hebrew media outlet Channel 2 reported on Tuesday.
Pollard, 63, was released from federal prison in November 2015, after being jailed for three decades for providing classified information to Israel when he worked as a naval intelligence analyst in the 1980s. While behind bars, Pollard — an American Jew — was granted Israeli citizenship.
The terms of Pollard’s parole dictated he must remain in the US for at least five years after his release date. According to the Channel 2 report, Netanyahu promised the Americans that Pollard’s other parole conditions — including a curfew, electronic monitoring and a media contact ban — would still be enforced in Israel.
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