Eli Cohen (* 26 December 1924 in Alexandria, Egypt; "† 18. May 1965) was a well-known Israeli feeler gauge.

In Jerusalem and in nearly all other Israeli cities there is a Eli Cohen road, it has still extensive celebrity.

As a young person in Egypt Eli Cohen was active in numerous zionistischen organizations. After beginning of its technical study it was enlisted 1944 by the Haganah. Because of zionistischer activities it was referred of the university and dedicated themselves to the illegal emigration from Jews to Israel.

At the age of 33 years it established itself in Israel. Only at the end of of 1959, three years after its immigration to Israel, experienced Cohen, which spoke Arab, English and French beside Hebrew also the fact that the Israeli secret service Mossad was interested since longer in him and began agent training.

Under the pseudonym Kamal Amil Taabs emerged Cohen at the beginning of of 1961 with Syrian passport in Buenos Aires, took up contact to Arabs, became acquainted with the Syrian and traveled at the end of of December 1961 to company to be enough and influential sheikh over Beirut to Damascus. Its knowledge of the Arabic language and customs facilitated for him to spend itself as a rich Syrian citizen. It referred a dwelling in Damascus opposite the staff headquarters of the Syrian army, which makes possible for it to spy it directly. Its radio traffic long time was not to be located by the surrounding messages and consulates unobserved and/or. Neither nor its neighbours in Damascus it knew its family that he was an Israeli feeler gauge. He make friends himself with high government officials and experienced soon many government secrets.

Eli Cohen had in the Syrian radio its own program and was generally speaking country famous. It was carried forward from a Syrian officer to inspection routes to the Syrian-Israeli border on the and visited many Syrian positions with newest Soviet weapons. It passed its information on to the Israeli secret service Mossad and helped Israel with the defense of hostile plans. After some years of brilliant work it was coincidentally unmasked on 21 January 1965, because all were silent up to Cohens battery-operated transmitter due to a power cut.

Cohen was condemned to death by the strand. World-wide requests for grace of the Pope just like of governments remained unsuccessful.

To 18. Thousands humans in Syria observed May 1965 via television the public execution. In the Arab states this inspired agreement found, in Israel however Cohen as a hero is admired.

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