Please use the following structure: example@domain.com, Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition. They had a son, Daniel, and after the Six Day War they celebrated his bar mitzvah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The Ba'athist coup and Eli Cohen's role. The Spy is streaming globally on Netflix. Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Chief of Staff Mordechai Gur, Defense Minister Ezer Weizmann, and many Mossad officials attended Eli's son's bar mitzvah in 1977. He became a confidante of George Saif, high up in the Ministry of Information. he goes abroad for business and meets Nadia and Sophie in Bat Yam. "My darling Nadia, and my dear family,I am writing you these last words, minutes before my end, with the hope that you stay together forever.I beg my wife to forgive me, to take care of herself and our children. But as the journalism we do is costly, we invite readers for whom The Times of Israel has become important to help support our work by joining The Times of Israel Community. Born Country:- Iraq Wife/Husband/Ex:- Eli Cohen (m. 1959-1965) Children:- Irit Cohen, Shai Cohen, Sophie Cohen Nadia Cohen is the widow of Israeli spy Eli Cohen, who spied in Syria by posing as a wealthy merchant during the early 1960s before being caught and hanged to death publicly. If so, please join The Times of Israel Community. The three major tributaries of the upper Jordan River the Dan, the Baniyas, and the Hatzbani all originate in the Golan. In February 1962, Cohen moved to Damascus. To establish his cover, Cohen moved to Buenos Aires in 1961. There is always the risk that the agent remains loyal to his original handlers and has managed to fool his new bosses. One day in 1960 Israeli Intelligence approached him about working for them again. A year later your sister dies.in 1947 all of you arrived in Argentina. Eli had lost his friends, in 1957 he immigrates to Israel. . His wife, Nadia, would be left a widow with three very young children. In the 1970s, they left Israel for Germany and in 1982, al-Gamal, alias Jacques Biton, died of an illness. He organized several protest campaigns against the British rule. In February 2007, the Turkish government offered to act as a mediator for their return. And much of the credit for Israels ability to capture the Golan was due to Eli Cohen, Israels greatest spy. He lasted until just July that year when he resigned in protest of the Ba'ath military committee executing dissenting rivals who tried to stage a coup for power. Eli kept transmitting reports of a military character, top military orders, reports on new weapons to Israel. Abdel Latif Hassan immediately wrote four letters one to his brother-in-law, two to friends in Beirut, and fourth to his son in Damascus. The daughter of legendary Israeli spy Eli Cohen said Sunday "it hurt" to watch the new Netflix series about her father's life and execution in Syria, lamenting some historical inaccuracies in. Eli did go back to Syria, but his behavior changed. It could not let Syria succeed and planning a response. Speaking to Cohen's brother, and to Israeli and Syrian intelligence experts, Sputnik has pieced together a new look at the superspy's incredible life story. [15], Cohen moved to Damascus in February 1962 under the alias Kamel Amin Thaabet (Arabic: ). In the short periods he came home he wanted to absorb all the love from his children, he even smelt their scent to stay with him, and he wanted to give all the love possible, like a father to his children. Eli Cohen The Most Successful Name in The History of Espionage In real life, Cohen was only able to return to Israel a few times during his mission. Before leaving, Cohen assured his wife it would be his last trip before he returned home permanently. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/nadia-cohen-46980.php. Cohen immigrated to Israel in 1957 and was recruited by Military Intelligence, to a unit that later became part of the Mossad. The melting winter snows produce a huge run-off of water which makes the Golan a beautifully verdant area in the late winter and spring and irrigates the Hula and Jordan Valleys below. In 1960, he was recruited to join the Mossad for a special mission in which he was to pretend to be a Syrian businessman returning to the country after having lived in Argentina. Even today Syria refuses to return his body for burial in Israel. Maurice Cohen told his brother he had a new phone line installed in his house and "gave the number of his apartment in Damascus, which I had received in a message just before he'd come home.". On 18 May 1965, Eli cohen was woken by the jailer and fastened the noose, and hang up, the huge poster was fastened on his chest where his sentence was written in Arabic.Even today Syria refuses to return his body for burial in Israel. According to Maurice Cohen, this really happened. Nine months later, in late 1961, Eli came back to Israel for a visit with his wife Nadia. With time he was taken even more into the confidence of the highest echelons of power. What Netflix's 'The Spy' Gets Wrong About Eli Cohen [5], His parents and three brothers left for Israel in 1949, but he remained to finish a degree in electronics and coordinate Jewish and Zionist activities. Decades after the Eli Cohen affair there are still many questions, some minor, others major - among them, the way in which Syrian counterintelligence identified the Israeli spy (from the archive). The six-part drama about Israeli spy Eli Cohen has gripped viewers and critics alike with its pulse-racing tale of espionage and a deceptively good dramatic performance by Sacha Baron Cohen, better known for his comedy work, as the Mossad agent. The Golan Heights defenses were top-secret and closed only to top military staff. Since then, Nadia has always counted on him. She understood from him that he would be working for the Ministry of Defense, but she didnt know where or in what capacity. He then underwent a show trial, like the Operation Susannah spies had in Egypt 12 years before., Like them, his verdict was predetermined. The spy who never came home - The Jewish Chronicle But even after four decades, there are still many questions related to the Eli Cohen affair, some minor, others major - among them, the way in which Syrian counterintelligence identified the Israeli spy. Asked to pinpoint what she found not to be reflective of her familys experience, Ben-Dor cited the ethnic gap, noting her mother was never a maid as was portrayed in the series. Despite being away from home for months at a time, he fathered three children, Sophie, Irit and Shai. "I have passed your response to our partners and am waiting for a reply," said the agent. He remembered and passed on to Israeli Intelligence the positioning of every Syrian gun, trench, and machine-gun nest in each Golan Heights fortification; tank traps, designed to impede any Israeli attack, were also identified and memorized for future targeting.. I had gotten under his cover," said Maurice Cohen. In 1963, during a business trip to Germany, he met Weltrude Scheffeldt, a divorcee, then 22 and with a small child, and married her. Nadia was told that Eli was working for the ministry of defense and would be completely safe. "I beg you my dear Nadia do not spend your life weeping for what has past," his final letter read. In the fifties, Israel had launched a project of huge pipeline and canals that would carry a part of the jorden river water to the arid Negev region. The crime of obtaining secret information is kept hidden to ensure the safety of the country to benefit the enemy. He has reached the apex of success, and it seems that there is no door he can't open. Eli Cohen - Jewish Virtual Library Since Eli did not have a steady job back then, even though he worked as an accountant, he had to rely more on Nadia to help support the family and their marriage. In 1951, he was arrested and interrogated over his Jewish and Zionist activities that he was carrying out under the tutelage of Alexandria's chief rabbi. He had also participated in various Israeli furtive operations in the country during the 1950s. According to an unconfirmed but widely believed story, he feigned sympathy for the soldiers exposed to the sun and had trees planted at every position, placed to provide shade. [9], Syria refused to return Cohen's body to his family in Israel, and his wife Nadia sent a letter to Amin al-Hafiz in November 1965 asking his forgiveness for Cohen's actions and requesting his remains. If I wanted something, I called, they put me through to him immediately. 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[2], A 2018 article published in Newsweek by Ronen Bergman excerpted from Bergman's book Rise and Kill First, says that Eli Cohen located Alois Brunner, a Nazi scientist suspected of living in Syria, and relayed the information to an Israel intelligence unit that later sent letter bombs to Brunner. "He began writing the number but stopped abruptly and, looking flushed and flustered, mumbled under his breath about needing to run out to the supermarket before it closed. The next day he comes to Hassan's office and admitted that he is sick and tired to live in Argentina, he wanted to go back to Syria, could he help him with a letter of recommendation? He was quickly able to infiltrate the highest levels of Syrian society. While undercover in Argentina in The Spy, Cohen struggles to resist drafting her notes, even if it puts him in danger. The information he had been providing them for years was too good to forego. But in 2018, Cohens watch was retrieved in a secret Mossad scheme. Where Is Nadia Cohen Now? Why Mossad's Retrieval of Eli Cohen's Watch Matters - SOFREP Due to this information, the Israeli Air Force was able to obliterate the Syrian plans for the diversion scheme by shelling and bombing the bulldozers and other equipment used for the scheme in early 1964. On September 20, 2016, an unknown Syrian group named 'Syrian Art Treasures' posted a 'Facebook' video showing Eli's body after his execution. thus Israel needed an agent in Damascus (Sami Micheal, Nadia Cohen's brother was recruited. They even started to organize a ceremony for Eli at the 'Mossad' headquarters in Glilot. "- From Eli Cohen's last letter to his wife Nadia and his children, written an hour before his execution in Damascus. The Spy is an aesthetically flawed portrait of Eli Cohen She also said she understood and respected the show. In early 1964, Eli was able to radio Tel Aviv that the channel was being dug along the entire length of the Syrian Heights to receive the diverted flow of the Baniyas River - one of the Jordans major sources - and empty into Jordanian territory. Eli carefully spelled out all the details of the project and passed them on to Israeli Intelligence. Instead, he joined the Egyptian merchant marine and was involved in a number of scams, which resulted in his arrest by the Egyptian secret service in 1952. His training was extensive and exhaustive. Israel tried to obtain the cooperation of her Arab neighbors for the plan, but the Arabs would not agree, even when the United States tried to use its diplomatic leverage for the furtherance of the plan. For more than 50 years, Nadia has fought to have her husbands body returned to Israel. He made friends who moved in highly influential Syrian circles, transmitting his findings back to Israel via radio.