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Israeli Air Force colonel who recruited Pollard while a graduate student at New York University; later became head of the Israeli Air Force planning division.
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Miriam Adelson
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Advocated for Trump's pardon of Sella in 2021. (relationship to Miriam Adelson)
Jonathan Pollard
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Pollard met Aviem Sella at NYU in 1984 while Sella was pursuing graduate studies on leave from the Israeli Air Force. Pollard offered his services as a spy after expressing frustration with U.S. withholding of intelligence from Israel. Sella contacted Israeli intelligence for instructions and was ordered to develop the contact. Sella then facilitated Pollard's connection to LAKAM handlers Rafi Eitan and Yossi Yagur. Sella fled the United States in 1985 after learning of Pollard's arrest but was later indicted in absentia.
Since 1984