Announcement of Wedding of Jonathan and Rivka – UPDATED

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About a year after losing his beloved wife Esther, Jonathan Pollard is expected to marry Mrs. Rivka Avrahamis-Donin, a mother of seven children from Jerusalem whose husband died several years ago.

The official announcement of the engagement was supposed to be published Wednesday morning, but was postponed at the couple's request until after the funeral of IDF Major Bar Falah, who was killed in a shootout with Arab terrorists in Samaria Tuesday night.

The official announcement reads:

How can I repay the Lord for all of his bountiful deals towards me? (Psalm 116 12)

With praise and thanks to G-d, we are excited to announce our engagement

We are full of gratitude to you, our friends and family members and our dear children for your love and hugs and first and foremost to Esther, may she rest in peace,. who in her infinite love even recognized us and allowed this miracle to happen. Her memory will always be with us.

The wedding will take place, G-d willing, in two months, after the High Holidays.

Source: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/359838

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Some additional info from various other news sites:

Rivka Abrahams-Donin, granddaughter of a British Jewish officer who tracked down and captured the commander of Nazi death camp Auschwitz.

During the engagement announcement, Pollard expressed his gratitude to his late wife for her "infinite love" and said it was she who introduced the two and "allowed this miracle to happen." The wedding is expected to take place in two months, after the High Holy Days.

Abrahams-Donin's grandfather, Karl Louis Abrahams, was an intelligence officer in the British military who was part of the mission to capture infamous Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess who oversaw the deaths of 2.5 million people between 1940 and 1943.

In a 2020 interview with Ynet's sister publication Yedioth Ahronoth, Abrahams-Donin said that her grandfather had kept his involvement in Hoess's arrest a secret for decades, and kept documents to prove his part in the heroic operation.

Before his death, he asked his family to hand over the documents to Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum.

The documents include Hoess's visitor log from his time as camp commander, alongside other personal papers, such as his Nazi party membership card. Hoess was captured on March 11, 1946, by the British Military Police in a village in northern Germany and was interrogated by Karl and his unit. 

"The interrogation lasted three days, during which I did not sleep. The atmosphere was strange and unrealistic when we heard him admit that he was personally responsible and overseeing the death of over 2.5 million people by gas and the cremation of their bodies, most of whom were Jewish," Karl wrote in a letter that he sent to his wife.

On May 25, 1946, Hoess was transferred to the Polish and sentenced to death by hanging on April 2, 1947. The punishment was carried out two weeks later, and on 16 April 1947 Hoess was hanged next to the crematorium at Auschwitz