Jonathan Pollard decried the election of his former Israeli intelligence handler to the Knesset. The former U.S. Navy analyst, who is serving a life sentence in prison for passing Israel classified documents in the 1980s, was on Sunday quoted by Ma’ariv as saying that the success of retired spymaster Rafi Eitan in the recent general elections was a “provocation” to the United States.
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