Jonathan Pollard

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Jonathan Pollard was a civilian American Naval intelligence analyst. His history of how he became an intelligence analyst is interesting can be found here. In 1983-1984, Pollard discovered that information vital to Israel’s security was being deliberately withheld by certain elements within the U.S. national security establishment. Indeed it was the case that Israel was legally entitled to this vital security information according to a 1983 Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries. The information being withheld from Israel included Syrian, Iraqi, Libyan and Iranian nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare capabilities – being developed for use against Israel. It also included information on ballistic missile development by these countries and information on planned terrorist attacks against Israeli civilian targets.

When Pollard discovered this suppression of information and asked his superiors about it, he was told to mind his own business, and that Jews get nervous talking about poison gas; they don’t need to know. He also learned that the objective of cutting off the flow of information to Israel was to severely curtail Israel’s ability to act independently in defense of her own interests. Pollard was painfully aware that Israeli lives were being put in jeopardy as a result of this undeclared intelligence embargo. He did everything he possibly could to stop this covert policy and to have the legal flow of information to Israel restored. When his efforts met no success, he began to give the information to Israel directly.

The story of his capture has been told very clearly . He and his wife have created a website with his side of the story . Our purpose here is to bring out in Torah codes one part of the Pollard story that is perhaps least written about: the relationship between Jonathan Pollard and Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu.

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