Esther Pollard, the wife of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard died Jan. 31 at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Israel. She was 68.

Born in Toronto as Elaine Zeitz, she devoted her life to bringing about the freedom of her husband. She met Jonathan Pollard on an Israel trip when they were teenagers. When she heard he had been arrested, she started writing him letters. They were married in 1993.

They moved to Israel a year ago, following the removal of his parole restrictions that prevented him from leaving New York. Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst was sentenced to life imprisonment and served a 30-year term for passing classified information to Israel.