Esther Pollard, 68, the wife of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, died on Monday at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, the hospital confirmed. She had been battling COVID-19 and was suffering from sepsis.
The funeral will take place at Har HaMenuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem. The funeral procession will begin at 4 p.m.
A statement by the Committee for Jonathan Pollard said that Esther, who had breast cancer, caught the virus two weeks ago and was being treated at home at the recommendation of her doctors. Her health deteriorated over the weekend and she was brought in for intensive care at Hadassah over Shabbat.
“I never imagined in my worst nightmare that this could happen to Esther,” Jonathan Pollard told Israel National News. “After decades of her fighting for my release, I felt so powerless to help her.”
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