The most famous Israeli spy property – 60 years after his execution in Syria was recovered

Israel has regained thousands of elements belonging to the country’s most famous spy after a secret operation in Syria.

On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated in some of the 2500 Syrian archives regarding Elie Cohen, an Israeli spy who infiltrated the political level in Syria, with the widow of Cohen. On Sunday it was 60 years since Cohen was hanged in a square in Damascus.

The recently protected elements to Israel include documents, records, pictures and elements collected by the Syrian intelligence after the seizure of them in January 1965, messages in his hand line to his family in Israel, pictures of his activity during his operational mission in Syria and the personal things that were transferred from his home after being captured.

Among the elements that were recovered, it was supposed to be written by hand by Cohen hours before his execution.

The bags of the elements that were brought to Israel included the worn outlets stuffed with handwritten observations, the keys to his apartment in Damascus, passports, wrong identity documents, and Mossad missions to investigate specific people and places, documenting all the efforts of his throwing, Nadia Cohen, and the world leader retreated to release him from prison.

A spokesman for the Syrian government did not respond immediately on a Reuters news agency request To comment on how to recover elements from Syria.

Cohen, who was born in Egypt, was sent to a Jewish family, by Mossad to Syria, where he was a Syrian businessman named Kamal Amin Tabit, BBC mentioned. After holding a friendship with influential political, commercial and military figures, he was able to obtain secret information, which returned to Israel.

Cohen’s success in Syria was one of the first achievements of the main Mossad SPY agency, thanks to the highest secret intelligence he obtained in a large scale in helping Israel prepare for its rapid victory in the Middle East war in 1967.

Elie Cohen managed to make close contacts in the political and military hierarchy of Israel’s aggression in the early 1960s, in the end to become a great advisor to the Minister of Defense in Syria. In 1965, Cohen was arrested radio information to Israel. He was tried and hanged in Damascus Square on May 18, 1965. His remains have not yet returned to Israel, where he is considered a national hero.

ISREAL previously recovered a Cohen of Syria watch, BBC mentioned In 2018, details of how Israel got the watch, unlike it “in a special season.”

In 2019, actor Sasha Baron Cohen Eli Cohen (no relationship) in the Netflix series consisting of six episodes called “spy.”

Netanyahu said on Sunday in Jerusalem: “We performed a special operation by Moussad, by the State of Israel, to bring his archive (Eli Cohen), who was in Syrian intelligence treasures for 60 years,” said Netanyahu Nadia Cohen on Sunday in Jerusalem.

Before the elements were offered, Nadia Cohen Netanyahu told the most important thing to restore Cohen’s body. Netanyahu said that Israel continues to work to determine the Cohen’s body. Last week, Israel regained the body of an Israeli soldier from Syria, which was missing for more than four decades, after being killed during a clash with the Syrian forces in Lebanon in 1982.

Netanyahu said: “Eli is an Israeli legend. He is the greatest Israeli intelligence agent who was in the years in the state. There was no one like him,” Netanyahu said.