In 2019, the Netflix network showed an exciting series of 6 episodes entitled “Spy … the life story of Elie Cohen”. The series was very popular, especially since the British actor who played Eli Ho Sasha Baron Cohen, and they were participating, in addition to the family name, with a great semi -like.
Elie Cohen is the most famous Israeli spy in history, and his story was greatly interesting in Arab and international circles.
Just imagine that a man comes to a strange city, succeeds in approaching all the prestigious political and military figures in it, and transferring them accurate intelligence information to Tel Aviv through a small recording device that he kept in his apartment. This man is Elie Cohen.
He was known as Kamel Amin Thabet, and he entered Syria at the beginning of the Caters as a Syrian businessman returning from Argentina, and there he was involved in Syrian and Arab society and was able to establish relations and friendships. Four years after his presence in Damascus, his order was revealed and was arrested by “the witnessed crime” as he sent information in his apartment, and the death sentence was carried out on May 18, 1965.
On the sixtieth anniversary of his execution, Cohen’s file has emerged to the fore again, in conjunction with the announcement of US President Donald Trump, from Riyadh to lift sanctions on Syria.
On May 18, Israel said it was able to “a complex secret operation”, according to the Office of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to bring Elie Cohen’s official Syrian archive to Israel.
But three sources, told Reuters on May 19, that “the Syrian leadership agreed to hand over spy documents and belongings Eli Cohen to Israel in an attempt to reduce tension and show goodwill to US President Donald Trump, after announcing the lifting of sanctions on Syria.
The agency quoted a Syrian security source, a consultant to Syrian President Ahmed Al -Shara, and a person familiar with the secret talks between the two countries, that the archive of the material was presented to Israel in an indirect initiative from Sharia as part of his endeavor to calm tension and build confidence in Trump.
The Cohen’s Syrian archive included about 2,500 documents, image and personal holdings, according to Netanyahu’s office.
The materials that Israel said included it recovered from Syria, an original will written by Cohen in his handwriting hours before his execution in the middle of Damascus, audio recordings and files from his interrogation and interrogation of those who were in contact with him, messages he wrote to his family in Israel and pictures of his mission in Syria.
It also includes personal holdings transferred from his home after his arrest, including forged passports and pictures of him with high -ranking Syrian military officials and government, in addition to notebooks for notes and diaries listed the duties of Mossad.
The agencies distributed a copy of the will of Cohen, which stated:
“To my wife, Nadia and my beloved family, I write to you these last words and ask you to be permanently related to each other, and please forgive me, Nadia, and to care for yourself and the children and preserve them, and educate them in full education, and not to deprive yourself or deprive them of something, and be a permanent link with my family .. and you can marry other That is, and please not waste your time crying over the past, always look at the future … ”.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad Director David Pernene handed over the materials to the widow of Cohen, Nadia Cohen, during a ceremony held on the occasion.
Cohen’s wife called for the restoration of his “body,” Netanyahu’s response came that the Israeli government is working on this, especially since “Eli, an Israeli legend, is the greatest agent in the history of Israeli intelligence.”
Reuters quoted a security source as saying that the Syrian opposition fighters led by Sharia found the Cohen file in a state security building in December in the wake of their control of Damascus.
The security source stated that Sharia realized that Cohen’s documents and his holdings are important to the Israelis and that returning them may represent a prominent diplomatic gesture.
With Israel’s commitment to silence, until now, regarding the Syrian novel, political researcher Samir Al -Taqi says in a statement to “Al -Hurra” that the issue in Israeli -Syrian relations is broader and deeper than providing Israel with Cohen documents, and puts what happened within the framework of a good -intentioned initiative from the authority of Ahmed Al -Shara.
Al -Taqi adds that there are direct meetings that take place between the Israeli and Syrian leaders with Turkish participation, and what will happen in the next stage will be more comprehensive than the mere giving archival documents, and will inevitably be within the discussion of the conditions in order to put an end to the Israeli bombing of Syria in exchange for understandings about the radical factions surrounding the Headquarters for the Levant, the Palestinian factions and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Elie Cohen was born in Alexandria in Egypt in 1924, and when he reached the age of twenty, he joined the “Zionist Jewish Youth Organization” in Egypt. After the 1948 war, he began calling with other members of the organization to migrate Egyptian Jews to Palestine, and then left Egypt in 1956.
Elie Cohen worked as a translator and analyst for Israeli military intelligence, and tried to join the “Mossad” and then failed, which prompted him to resign from military intelligence and work as an accountant for some private companies in Tel Aviv.
An informed source mentioned to Reuters that Syria agreed in the talks to measures, including restoring the remains of Cohen and three Israeli soldiers who died during a fight with the Syrian forces in Lebanon in the early eighties. Israel reported last week that it had recovered the remains of one of these soldiers, Tsafi Feldman.
In this regard, my conversation with Al -Hurra indicates to exclude the ability of the new Syrian authority to reach information about the remains of Cohen. And he confirms that the information necessary to find out the place of his burial is linked to Rifaat al -Assad and the military teams that were affiliated with him.
The meeting is excluded from the idea of reports that show this place except in the event of the arrest of some of the soldiers affiliated with Rifaat al -Assad at the hands of the new Syrian legitimate authority.
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