Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formally requested the U.S. President, Barack Obama, to pardon Jonathan Pollard, an American imprisoned for twenty-five years in the United States for spying for Israel, said Tuesday radio Kol Israel (The Voice of Israel "). The office of Mr. Netanyahu, who announced Dec.21 that the Prime Minister take the initiative in the coming days, has neither confirmed nor denied reports of radio, but said that he would speak on the subject to Parliament in late afternoon. Kol Israel said the request for clemency was made in a letter to U.S. President, which is read in Parliament.
Jonathan Jay Pollard, 56, former U.S. Navy analyst, was sentenced by U.S. court to life imprisonment in 1987 for having provided Israel, from May 1984 until his arrest in November 1985, thousands of documents classified "top secret" on the espionage activities of the United States, mostly in Arab countries.
Jonathan Pollard has been officially recognized by Israel as an Israeli spy in 1998 and Israeli citizenship was granted in 1995.
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