eli cohen

Syria hanged Israeli spy Eli Cohen in 1965. His body might be coming home.

Last year, Israel’s Mossad intelligence service retrieved the wristwatch Cohen wore in Egypt and returned it to his family.

Israel retrieves wristwatch of 1960s spy Eli Cohen from Syria

A Mossad operation brought back the executed agent’s timepiece.

Relatives of Israeli spy Eli Cohen visit his old haunts in Buenos Aires

In 1960, Egyptian-born Eli Cohen was recruited by the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency. He was dispatched to Argentina, where he posed as an expatriate Syrian businessman, and later moved to Damascus.

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