Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the United States on Sunday to free the “ill” Israeli spy Jonathan pollard.

Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the United States on Sunday to free the “ill” Israeli spy Jonathan pollard.

"It is time to release Pollard. The Festival of Freedom of all the Jews should turn into Pollard's private one," Netanyahu said in remarks relayed by his office.
"I have done much for his release, and will continue to act for it."

"We call on the US president that in such a situation, he will pardon Pollard and realize that after 27 years it is time to set this Jew free."

On Friday, Israeli media reported that Pollard was rushed to hospital near his North Carolina prison. Israel's Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger took the opportunity of a Sunday holiday visit paid by President Shimon Peres to convey an appeal to the US leadership for the freedom of the 57-year-old Pollard.

A spokesman for the rabbi told Agence France Press that Metzger has recently been holding talks with senior officials in the White House, including Vice President Joe Biden, and that Metzger felt that their stance on Pollard had "softened."
"The rabbi's request is that from hospital, Pollard be discharged to freedom," the spokesman said.

Peres told Pollard's wife Esther on Sunday that he was "bothered and concerned by the recent reports" about Pollard's health, and said he would ask President Barack Obama "to positively consider releasing Pollard," in light of his medical condition

Pollard, a former US Navy analyst, passed thousands of secret documents about American spy activities in the Arab world to Israel between May 1984 and his arrest in November 1985.
He was granted “Israeli citizenship” in 1995 and was officially recognized by the Zionist entity as an Israeli spy in 1998.