"Unveiling Eli Cohen's Legacy: Israel's Covert Operation in Syria"

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"Unveiling Eli Cohen's Legacy: Israel's Covert Operation in Syria"

[!CDATA[Israel recently conducted a covert operation in Syria to retrieve thousands of items related to Eli Cohen, a renowned Israeli spy who infiltrated the political circles in Syria. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared some of the 2,500 items from the Syrian archive with Cohen's widow, marking 60 years since Cohen's execution in Damascus. The items included documents, recordings, photos, personal objects, and a handwritten will by Cohen before his execution. Eli Cohen, born in Egypt to a Jewish family, was sent by Mossad to Syria under the alias Kamal Amin Taabet. He successfully gathered secret information by befriending influential figures in Syria, aiding Israel in its victory in the 1967 Middle East War. Despite his achievements, Cohen was caught transmitting information to Israel, leading to his trial and hanging in 1965. His remains have not been returned to Israel, where he is revered as a national hero. Israel previously recovered Cohen's watch from Syria in a secret Mossad operation. In 2019, actor Sacha Baron Cohen portrayed Eli Cohen in a Netflix series called "The Spy." Netanyahu assured Cohen's widow that efforts to locate Cohen's body were ongoing, citing a recent successful mission to recover the body of an Israeli soldier missing for over four decades. Netanyahu praised Cohen as a legendary figure in Israeli intelligence history.]]