The head of Israel’s Pensioners Party has a document that could win Jonathan Pollard’s release, according to the wife of the convicted spy. Rafi Eitan “has in his personal possession a document, a major bargaining chip in negotiations for Jonathan’s release,” Esther Pollard wrote March 30 in the online version of Ma’ariv. “He has held the only copy of it for 21 years.”
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