All 120 members of the 16th Knesset will be sworn in tomorrow afternoon in Israel's Parliament building in Jerusalem. The ceremony will take place with the participation of President Moshe Katzav, judges, the Chief Rabbis, and foreign diplomats. Each MK has been allowed to invite three guests to the opening session, and 1,000 people are expected in all.
As the new Knesset is being sworn in tomorrow, demonstrators will gather at 3:30 PM outside the Knesset to urge the incoming government and the new MKs to act to "Bring Jonathan Home." Organizers Eli Yosef - who completed a 150-day hunger strike on behalf of Jonathan Pollard in early 2000, and Nissan Gan-Or of the Committee to Bring Jonathan Home, say that as another Gulf War appears on the horizon, "we will remind all that Jonathan Pollard put his life on the line to warn about the chemical-biological threat from Iraq. He is still in an American jail in his 18th year of a life sentence, meted out and sustained with the cooperation of successive Israeli governments, with no end in sight."
"Today, when the U.S. is preparing to force Iraq to disarm itself of weapons of mass destruction," say the protestors, "it is inconceivable that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remains willing to let Jonathan die in prison, rather than demand his release as part of the US-Israel strategic understanding." Former Soviet Prisoner of Zion Yosef Mendelevich will also join the protestors.
As the new Knesset is being sworn in tomorrow, demonstrators will gather at 3:30 PM outside the Knesset to urge the incoming government and the new MKs to act to "Bring Jonathan Home." Organizers Eli Yosef - who completed a 150-day hunger strike on behalf of Jonathan Pollard in early 2000, and Nissan Gan-Or of the Committee to Bring Jonathan Home, say that as another Gulf War appears on the horizon, "we will remind all that Jonathan Pollard put his life on the line to warn about the chemical-biological threat from Iraq. He is still in an American jail in his 18th year of a life sentence, meted out and sustained with the cooperation of successive Israeli governments, with no end in sight."
"Today, when the U.S. is preparing to force Iraq to disarm itself of weapons of mass destruction," say the protestors, "it is inconceivable that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remains willing to let Jonathan die in prison, rather than demand his release as part of the US-Israel strategic understanding." Former Soviet Prisoner of Zion Yosef Mendelevich will also join the protestors.