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Israel turned down an appeal to designate Jonathan Pollard a “Prisoner of Zion.” An Israeli committee that seeks the release of Pollard, a U.S. Navy intelligence analyst imprisoned since 1986 for spying for Israel, asked the Ministry of Immigration and Absorption to grant the symbolic status, used in the 1980s to increase pressure on the Soviets to release prisoners.

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