Yerushalayim Mayor Nir Barkat said he will submit for approval the proposal to award Jonathan Pollard with the Jerusalem Freedom Award as “a sign expressing the desire of the Jewish people to be a free people in our land of Zion and Jerusalem.”
Addressing hundreds of participants of the Miami Jewish Federation’s mission to Israel, Barkat said that the Jerusalem Council places utmost importance on Pollard’s safe return to “his family and his people.”
“Many people throughout the world find it difficult to understand the supreme value that the State of Israel places on a single human life,” he said. “Even in the most difficult, Jonathan Pollard never stopped dreaming about Jerusalem and we pray that his dreams come true.”
“We must act utilizing all available means to free our people,” Barkat said, stressing the importance of the upcoming holiday of Passover, which symbolizes the Jewish exodus from slavery to freedom.
City Council member Yair Gabbai, who proposed the initiative, said, “I congratulate the mayor who adopted my initiative to give the signal of freedom of Jerusalem Jonathan Pollard.”
“As public representatives we should do everything to bring him home… I hope that this initiative will be heard in the corridors of the White House and will end the suffering of our brothers Jonathan Pollard,” he said.
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our anti-semetic country will try as hard as they can to prevent his pardon and release from jail we must daven
My spider sense tells me that Pollard is not going to leave jail until Obama wants to pardon him. Might not happen.
“My spider sense tells me that Pollard is not going to leave jail until Obama wants to pardon him. Might not happen.”
Pollard will never get a pardon (as opposed to clemency or parole). But in any case Pollard is scheduled for release on November 21, 2015.
“City Council member Yair Gabbai, who proposed the initiative, said, ‘I congratulate the mayor who adopted my initiative to give the signal of freedom of Jerusalem Jonathan Pollard.'”
OK would any and all other who want to jump on this particular political bandwagon kindly form an orderly line, please? There is no need to push and shove; there is plenty of room for all of you.