NEW! Video and Letter: Israeli Personalities' Urgent Appeal to Olmert:
Bring Jonathan Pollard Home now!

It is a rare occurrence that Israeli citizens from all walks of life and all
political stripes come together to rally around a single issue. This video
about the case of Jonathan Pollard, filmed on the eve of Olmert's departure
to Washington to meet with Bush, the same week that Pollard enters his 24th
year in prison, clearly demonstrates wall to wall support by all Israeli
citizens to bring Pollard home now! Interviewees include: the former Chief
of Staff of the IDF, a Former Supreme Court Justice, a number of Professors,
Winners of the Israel Prize, and even a Nobel Prize Laureate, as well as
ordinary rank and file citizens from all walks of life. (Language: Hebrew)

For video:
www.jonathanpollard.org/2008/111808.wmv

Below is a copy of the text of a letter that was sent to Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert along with a copy of the video.
[The letter was published in the Jerusalem Post 11/18/08 See JPEG
www.jonathanpollard.org/2008/111608.jpg ]

Israeli Personalities' Urgent Appeal to PM Olmert:
Bring Jonathan Pollard Home!
B"H, Sunday, 18 Cheshvan 5769
November 16, 2008
To the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Ehud Olmert:
This week, on the eve of your trip to the United States to meet with
President George Bush, Jonathan Pollard enters his 24th year of
incarceration for his service to the State of Israel. It is a rare
occurrence that Israeli citizens from all walks of life and all political
stripes come together to rally around a single issue. But in the case of
Jonathan Pollard, there is wall to wall support by all Israeli citizens to
bring Pollard home now!
As you well know, Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. Bush's term in office is drawing
to a close. This is a time of grace when a retiring president traditionally
grants clemency to prisoners. President Bush's warm relations with you and
with the State of Israel are well known. There is no doubt that a serious
request on your part to the President for the release of one single
prisoner, Jonathan Pollard, would be met with a positive response.
The median sentence for the offense Pollard committed, passing classified
information to an ally, is 2 to 4 years in prison. Even those American
officials, who in the past were opposed to his release, today are on record
in support of his release. We, the undersigned, join Israelis from all walks
of life and across the political spectrum in making this heartfelt appeal to
you, Mr. Olmert: Bring Pollard home with you! Enough is enough!
Jonathan Pollard is an Israeli Citizen and an Israeli agent who risked
everything for the security of the State of Israel and for its defense.
Thanks to Pollard, hundreds of thousands of Israeli lives were saved. After
surviving 23 years in prison in brutal conditions, Pollard is ill and his
health is deteriorating. He is in mortal danger.
Mr. Prime Minister, there is no doubt that the immediate release of Jonathan
Pollard is a very important humanitarian consideration; but it is also a
moral imperative for the People of Israel. Not only because he is a fellow
human being in peril, but also because he is an Israeli citizen and an
Israeli agent, the People of Israel has an absolute moral obligation to save
his life. We must not miss this opportunity to bring Jonathan Pollard home
now!

With blessing,
Signed:

Dani Ayalon - former Israeli Ambassador to the United States
Aryeh (Lova) Eliav - former Secretary General of the Labour Party
Maj.- Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror - formerly head of research in Military
Intelligence and commander of the IDF Military Colleges
Professor (Robert) Yisrael Aumann - Nobel Prize Laureate (Einstein College
of Mathematics and Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University.)
Professor Asa Kasher - Winner of The Israel Prize
Professor Amnon Rubinstein - Winner of The Israel Prize, former MK and
Minister
Rabbi Yitzhak Dovid Grossman - Chief Rabbi of Migdal HaEmek and head of
Migdal Ohr Institutions
Professor Reuven Orda - Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University
Dorit Aldovi - Editor of high tech magazine, "Technologies"
Maj.- Gen. (Res.) Moshe "Boogie" Ya'alon - former Chief of Staff of the IDF
Rami Doron - Chairman of "Airim B'Layla" (organization for former P.O.W's in
enemy countries)
Yoel Marshek - Chairman of the Kibbutz Movement's Task Force
Nehamia Rafel - Secretary General of the Religious Kibbutz Movement
Professor Eli Polk - Chairman of the Union of the Public's Right to Know and
Chairman of The Professors Society for Sound Policy and Economics
Chaim Amit - founder of High Tech College
Matti Golan - writer, playwright, journalist; editor 'Globes"
Jackie Levy - journalist and opinion-maker
Arel Segal - journalist and opinion-maker
Amnon Lord - editor, Makor Rishon Newspaper
Tzvi Tal - former Supreme Court Justice
Effie Lahav - Chairman of the Academic Union, Jerusalem Branch
Moshe Peled - General (res.), former MK and deputy Minister

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