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  Eli Cohen
Eli Cohen was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on December 26, 1928 [sic 1924].
Eli, after all, was born in an Arab country, had oriental features, was known to be selfless and fearless in pursuit of a cause, and had knowledge of Arabic, English, and French.
Eli, who would feign intoxication, remained sober and listened carefully." In addition to providing loans to government officials and acting as an avid host, he was asked for advice by government officials, who were often intoxicated by the alcohol he freely provided.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Eli_Cohen.html   (2637 words)

  
  By  Shelly Benjamini
Eli Cohen was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on December 26, 1924.
Eli Cohen was fit for his mission as a spy in Syria, because of his Arabic appearance, his knowledge of the Arabic language, and because he was brave, fearless, and patriotic.
Eli Cohen expressed that he fears that he had been undercover for too long and if he would not return to Israel soon, he would be discovered by the Syrians.
talmud.epsb.ca /ourwork/grade9/elicohen.htm   (903 words)

  
 Think-Israel
Eli has been dead for 40 years now, and though I did not kill him, I am fully aware that my failure to disclose what I knew may have sealed is fate.
Eli had explained that he was merely a tourist who brought regards from her nephews in the old country.
Eli returned to Israel in 1964 to be present at the birth of his third child, his son Shaul.
www.think-israel.org /cohen.brother.html   (3542 words)

  
 Eli Cohen: Spy Within Part I & II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Eliahu (Eli) Cohen was born on 16 December 1924 in Alexandria, Egypt, to which his father, Shaul Cohen, had emigrated in 1914 from Aleppo, Syria.
In the wake of the Free Officers movement that toppled King Farouk in 1952, Cohen was arrested on suspicion of engaging in Zionist activities.
Eli Cohen worked successfully as an undercover agent in Egypt until after the Sinai Campaign in 1956, or what is called the Trilateral Aggression against Egypt, by Israel, France and Britain when the Egyptians expelled him from the country.
www.qchillel.org /news/011999.htm   (1291 words)

  
 Case of Philip "Eli" Cohen - London, England
Philip Eli Cohen, aged 18, a student, of Stamford Hill, north London, denies one charge of buggery and 13 charges of indecently assaulting the woman's 12-year-old son, and four offences of indecently assaulting her six-year-old daughter.
Cohen was acquitted at Southwark Crown Court several weeks ago of three other offences of indecently assaulting the girl and of 13 allegations of indecency and one of buggery against her brother, then aged 11.
Cohen admitted twice sexually assaulting Debbie but was cleared of three other counts of indecently assaulting her, and of 13 counts of indecent assault and one of buggery against her brother.
www.theawarenesscenter.org /elicohen.html   (11486 words)

  
 Jewish Post - News - Eli Cohen: Defender of Greater Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Eli Cohen was born in Jerusalem in 1949 and was always an original doer.
Eli Cohen views them as his children because he helped to establish and reinforce them when he was head of the Jewish Agency's settlement department and later as the assistance to Israel's Defense Ministers (such as Yitzhak Mordecai or Misha Arens) in charge of these settlements.
But Eli Cohen is a fighter, a senior officer who was among the first soldiers who crossed the canal with Arik Sharon in the Yom Kippur War, a famous karate fighter, and he tells you exactly what is on his mind.
www.jewishpost.com /jp0901/jpn0901g.htm   (1846 words)

  
 Yahrzeit of Eli Cohen - May 18, 1965   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Eli was born in Alexandria, Egypt on December 26, 1928.
Cohen, skilled in his craft, was able to not only get a tour of the area, but able to get a comprehensive military briefing of the Golan and all its positions.
As Eli was being briefed as to the Syrian fortifications of the Golan, he suggested that they plant eucalyptus trees to give the Israelis the impression that the locations were not fortified, and also to offer shade for the Syrian soldiers.
www.wzo.org.il /doingzionism/resources/view.asp?id=1034   (1828 words)

  
 Radikal-çevrimiçi / Yorum / Suriye'yi sarsan Eli Cohen
Eli, İskenderiye Yahudilerinin yardım sandığına bağlı yurtta büyüdü.
Cohen Mısır'da bir görev istiyordu, ancak örgütün ona Suriye'de ihtiyacı olduğu söylendi.
Eli kısa süre içinde Buenos Aires'e gönderildi, yeni kimliği ile orada izler bırakacaktı.
www.radikal.com.tr /haber.php?haberno=139784   (1224 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Eli joined the Haganah underground and after the creation of the State of Israel, he remained in Egypt, where he was implicated in the Lavon Affair, an attempt by Israeli intelligence to sabotage relations between Egypt and the United States and Britain.
Cohen was recruited by army intelligence and later was transferred to the Mossad.
Eli’s widow, Nadia, who Maurice implored in his last letter to remarry but who has not, has also written an open letter to Bashir Assad, congratulating him on assuming the presidency and asking for the return to Israel of her husband’s remains as a gesture of more harmonious relations between the two countries.
www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=9356   (1187 words)

  
 RoyalTS » Blog Archive » Eli Cohen
Eli Cohen was successfully inserted into Syria and managed to reach positions that made him privy to some of Syria’s most sensitive national secrets.
As the Syrian Army officer explained to Eli the fortifications the Syrian Army had built, Eli suggested that the Syrians plant trees there to deceive the Israelis into thinking it was unfortified, as well as to provide shade and beauty for the soldiers stationed there.
With Soviet help Eli Cohen was arrested by Syrian police in 1965, trialed without counsel and hung as a traitor in May of that year.
royal-ts.de /2006/03/08/eli-cohen   (356 words)

  
 Eli Cohen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eli Cohen (Hebrew: אלי כהן) (December 26, 1924 – May 18, 1965) was a celebrated Israeli spy, and is recognized as one of the most successful spies of modern times.
Born in Egypt, Cohen contributed to pro-Israeli activities in Egypt during the 1950s, but the most important part of his career began when he was recruited into Israeli military intelligence in 1960.
Cohen also learned of an important secret Syrian plan to have three lines of bunkers and mortars right after each other in order to trick the Israeli military who would have only known of one at a time.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eli_Cohen   (620 words)

  
 Azure
Cohen’s family and successive Israeli gov­ernments have pleaded for the return of his remains, only to be met with adamant rejection.
Eli Cohen was on the one hand a charming Arab millionaire who rubbed elbows with the rich and famous of Damascus; and on the other, a new im­migrant from Egypt who worked as an accountant and lived in a modest flat in the Israeli town of Bat Yam.
Cohen once let it slip, he said, that he was going to pray in “a Muslim mosque,” an expression that immediately aroused suspicion.
www.azure.org.il /magazine/magazine.asp?id=284   (3161 words)

  
 Eli Cohen
Eli Cohen was deeply moved as a young man in Cairo by the trial of two members of the Stern Group Eliahu Bet-Zouri and Eliahu Hakim.
In the early 1950s Cohen was recruited by the Mossad to participate in an espionage operation that spied on Nasser's Nazi scientists attempts to build rockets and engaged in sabotage.
Cohen adopted the persona of a rich Arab merchant who had emigrated to Argentina and then returned to his Syrian homeland, calling himself Kamal Amin Taabes, this Mossad agent had gained access to the most influential sectors of Damascus society.
www.saveisrael.com /martyred/elicohen.htm   (600 words)

  
 Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
Maurice Cohen, brother of Israel's greatest spy Eli Cohen, talks of his brother’s courageous acts of espionage and his family’s yearning to bring Eli’s remains to a proper Jewish burial.
Cohen was responsible for transmitting crucial information that enabled the Israeli army a swift and decisive victory in their battle with the Syrians over the Golan Heights in the Six Day War.
Remarkably, Cohen was recruited to work in the same Mossad unit as his brother Eli, but neither of the brothers had any knowledge of the nature of the other's work.
www.israelnn.com /news.php3?id=95326   (890 words)

  
 Leigh Bureau - W. Colston Leigh, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Eli combines expertise in leadership research with experience in strategy and finance to bring a practical, reality-based perspective to a “soft” and often theoretical subject.
Eli Cohen is as an Associate at Accel Partners.
Eli Cohen is a Professor of Computerized Management Information Systems at the Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management (Poland) and Director of Informing Science Institute (U.S).
leighbureau.com /speaker.asp?id=249   (344 words)

  
 Eli Cohen Official Web Site | Welcome | Sponsored by Maurice Cohen and the American Friends of Eli Cohen Memorial, Inc.
Cohen was able to supply considerable details on Syrian political and military matters because of his strong interpersonal skills and abilities to build close ties with business, military, and Ba'ath Party leaders, and Syrian President Amin el Hafiz.
Eli was privy to secrets of the Syrian elite including those of national security.
This is an international educational site to increase people's knowledge of the contribution Eli Cohen made to the survival of the State of Israel and the Jewish people; and the history of the Middle East at the time.
www.elicohen.org   (615 words)

  
 israelinsider: Views: Police arrest quiet hero of Gush Katif; Eli Cohen: "I was Chosen"
Eli Mozes gave me his boyish grin, but the pain in his eyes and the new creases in his forehead told me that he was in pain.
Eli Mozes is permitted to be at his job at the Katifari, the Gush Katif zoo, where he cares for the animals.
Eli Mozes is being used as an example of this new police action in Gush Katif.
web.israelinsider.com /Views/5077.htm   (807 words)

  
 For Zion's Sake Ministries - Israel Humanitarian Aid Organization
While most of the signatories came from Israel and the US, Cohen said that some came from the Arab world, although he did not say whether any were from Syria, where Cohen was hanged in Damascus's Martyrs Square on May 18, 1965.
A former Mossad agent himself, Cohen also detailed how he deciphered coded messages from Eli, among those from Wolfgang Lotz and other Israeli agents in Arab countries, without knowing that his own brother was the source.
Maurice Cohen is lecturing about his brother on Thursday night, at a memorial event at the Israel Center in Jerusalem.
www.forzion.com /full-article.php?news=406   (1023 words)

  
 Remembering Eli Cohen HY"D - The OU Cyber Home of Torah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1924, Eli joined the Israeli intelligence in 1960, was set up with a new identity, and sent to Syria.
The most successful known mole in Israeli history, Eli was caught transmitting to his handlers in January, 1965, and, after many weeks of torture, was tried and publicly hung in a Syrian town square.
To learn more about Eli Cohen, please visit the official Eli Cohen web site (in Hebrew), see the Jerusalem Post from that day or see these books...
www.ou.org /yerushalayim/lezikaronolam/elicohen   (170 words)

  
 Eli Cohen's Family Takes Initiative
Daughter of slain Israeli spy Eli Cohen on Saturday confirmed a report published by the London-based al-Hayat by which Cohen's family has been trying to promote a deal in which Syria would hand over his remains in return for the release of Druze security prisoners incarcerated in Israel.
Cohen said she had asked Western officials to deliver a request to Syria's Ambassador to the United States, Imad Mustafa, to grant her permission to visit Damascus to promote her plan.
Cohen's widow Nadia said the family had made a video appealing directly not only to the Syrian president, but also to his wife Asma.
www.jonathanpollard.org /2005/060405.htm   (549 words)

  
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We, his family, were blissfully ignorant of the fact that Eli was already on shaky ground with the Egyptian authorities.
We made all the necessary arrangements, and when Nadia and Eli met, it was immediately clear that they were meant to be together.
Kamel Amin Sa’bet conspicuously spent his money (provided by his bosses at Mossad) hosting parties for the local Syrian community, making it clear to anyone who would listen that what he really desired was to be back in Syria, contributing to the growth of its government and working toward the destruction of Israel.
www.jafi.org.il /education/actual/ecohen   (3653 words)

  
 Eli Cohen Official Web Site | A Brother's Story | Sponsored by Maurice Cohen and the American Friends of Eli Cohen ...
Eli answered without hesitation, "From the Lafayette Gallery in Paris." I made it hard for Eli and continued to ask him if shoe sizes are written in Arabic in France.
But before Eli got back home, I was summoned to my base and warned not to discuss the issue with Eli anymore and not to reveal this secret to anyone.
Eli went to his death as a proud Jew, the age-old prayer "Shma Yisrael" on his lips.
www.elicohen.org /resources/brothersstory   (1071 words)

  
 Release Eli Cohen's body to his family for proper burial Petition
Eli Cohen was tortured, tried and convicted as a Mossad Agent by the Syrian Military Court, without legal representation, despite the intervention and protests of the international community.
For 38 years the Cohen Family has been waiting and suffering, unable to visit Eli's graveside nor pay their last respects, as his body remains imprisoned somewhere within Syria.
The Release Eli Cohen's body to his family for proper burial Petition to Dr. Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria was created by www.elicohenspy.com and written by Maurice Cohen.
www.petitiononline.com /EliCohen/petition.html   (238 words)

  
 Israel - Eli Cohen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Elihu ben Shaul Cohen worked as a Mossad agent in Damascus, Syria, from 1962 until his exposure and execution in May 1965.
Because of his skill at building close ties with business, military, and Baath Party leaders, Cohen was able to supply considerable details on Syrian political and military matters.
The writer reports speculation by Israeli analysts that Syria "could have a dramatic effect" on Israeli public opinion concerning the ongoing negotiations between Israel and Syria by returning Cohen's remains to Israel.
intellit.muskingum.edu /israel_folder/israelcohen.html   (234 words)

  
 The Eli & Bessie Cohen Foundation - Jewish Community Support
The Eli and Bessie Cohen Foundation supplements its commitment to building Jewish communities through additional endeavors that support Eli and Bessie Cohen's passion for and mission of Jewish education in the United States and in Israel.
Under Arnold and Annebelle Cohen's direction, the Foundation carries on this tradition as a generous benefactor of Jewish life and institutions throughout the community, the United States and Israel.
The Cohen Foundation is guided by the philosophy that philanthropy starts "at home." To that end, the Foundation's commitment to a scholarship program insures that Jewish youth from families of all means, as well as the children of Jewish educational professionals, have the opportunity to attend the Cohen Camps.
www.cohencamps.org /Community.htm   (214 words)

  
 "Am I My Brother’s Keeper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
It tells how the story of Eli Cohen was dramatized into a 1987 independent film, now re-released on DVD.
The article below is by Maurice Cohen, who was not only Eli's brother, but a fellow Mossad agent with a special and unique connection to the Impossible Spy's important missions.
Egypt was the land where our parents met and where Eli and I were born—he in 1924 and I three years later.
home.att.net /~wbritton53/Maurice.htm   (3477 words)

  
 Eli Cohen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
He was the first of many friendly faces to introduce himself to me. Of course that was with his hand out for the membership fee.
Eli became a member of the group around 1986, when the membership was only $3 a year.
Last month, Eli visited Biloxi, MS for the first time in 30 years.
www.mhcug.org /0699Eli.htm   (541 words)

  
 Personality of the Week - Cohen
Cohen became involved in underground Zionist activities and was imprisoned by the Egyptians and then expelled from Egypt.
After going to Israel in 1957 he joined the Mossad and was sent to Syria to infiltrate the higher ranks.
Eli Cohen - The Jewish Agency for Israel
www.bh.org.il /Names/POW/Cohen.asp   (177 words)

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