Received this email from a friend in the US;
Subject: [bsaje] Isn’t it amazing what the Israeli Foreign Ministry can do when it wants to? Disgraceful how it ignores Pollard!
Israeli Spends Rosh Hashanah Eve in a US Jail
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An Israeli tourist who planned to spend the two-day Rosh Hashanah holiday with friends in the Washington, D.C. area was surprised when Maryland police placed him under arrest for photographing the Fort McHenry Tunnel along Interstate 95.
The interested tourist stopped for a few moments to photograph the tunnel but he apparently attracted the attention of a local resident who phoned police, reporting a man “looking suspicious — taking photos of the tunnel.”
Maryland police quickly responded and a chase resulted in their successfully catching the tourist’s vehicle. He was immediately taken into custody.
Reports of the incident reached Foreign Ministry officials in Jerusalem, who learned the man arrived in America about six weeks earlier, did have a legal visa and was carrying a valid passport and international driver’s license.
After about four hours, diplomatic officials did manage to persuade police that his actions were benign, and he was released from custody.