Jonathan Pollard is urging members of the Knesset to lobby the U.S. Congress for his release. Serving a life sentence in a North Carolina prison for spying for Israel, Pollard has asked members of the Israeli government to forward a petition seeking his release to Congress, as well as to President Bush.
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