Ex-spy Jonathan Pollard, U.S. envoy Mike Huckabee held secret meeting at U.S. Jerusalem embassy | 20 Nov 2025 | Convicted Israeli-American spy Jonathan Pollard said that his meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee at the American Embassy in Jerusalem was a “personal” conversation to express gratitude, not a political exchange, in a phone conversation with The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. “The meeting, simply put, was a personal affair. That’s it,” he said. “The reason I wanted to meet him was to express my deep and sincere appreciation for everything he had done to help me when I was in prison.” According to Pollard, the meeting was “misinterpreted” and used by certain figures, both within the U.S. Embassy and the Trump administration, to try to remove Huckabee. The Post reported earlier Thursday that Pollard and Huckabee met at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, in a conversation that was not on the ambassador’s public schedule. The meeting drew concern among some U.S. officials, according to that report.