Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard arrives in Israel from the US

Jonathan Pollard and his wife sit inside a private plane on route to Israel (Israel Hayom/AP)

A man who spent 30 years in a US prison for spying for Israel has arrived home with his wife.

Jonathan Pollard triumphantly kissed the ground as he disembarked from an aircraft in the culmination of a decades-long affair that had long strained relations between the two close allies.