By Jonathan Pollard, age 66, and his wife, Esther, arrived in Israel on Wednesday morning, 35 years after being arrested for passing U.S. intelligence secrets to Israel. The Pollards were met at the airport by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who recited the shehecheyanu blessing thanking God for sustaining us for auspicious occasions and another blessing thanking God for releasing prisoners. Netanyahu gave them their official papers and citizen ID cards. The Pollards, both Orthodox Torah observant Jews, responded by kneeling on the tarmac and kissing the ground of the Holy Land. “We are excited to be home at last,” Pollard said. “There is…
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