Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard claimed in an interview broadcast on Monday that he was told years ago by someone “sent by the Israeli government” that he should commit suicide to “close the door” on his case, which had caused a major rift between Israel and the US.

The recording, which was aired on Army Radio, featured Pollard recounting a conversation he said he had with an apparent Israeli agent, sometime between his release from a US prison in 2015 and his immigration to Israel in 2020.

“He said, ‘You are a patriot right? You love your country?'” Pollard recounted.

“Why don’t you just do the right thing and we’ll bring you home, give you a nice burial on Mount Herzl, so we can close the door on this case,” the Israeli man continued, according to Pollard, referring to the main military cemetery in Jerusalem.

“I didn’t understand what he meant,” Pollard said.

Pollard, a US Navy intelligence analyst, was arrested in 1985, pled guilty to passing thousands of crucial US documents to Israel, and sentenced to life in prison.

The incident........

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