The wife of Jonathan Pollard criticized Israel and the American Jewish community for lobbying more “convincingly” to obtain a pardon for fugitive financier Marc Rich than for her husband, who is serving a life sentence for spying for Israel. Esther Pollard made her comments at a dinner Sunday sponsored by the National Council of Young Israel.
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