Cohen at first acted as a courier but later took on the more dangerous job of bribing Egyptian officials for cooperation. Cohen’s capture was mere chance. Cohen was exposed and executed by Syrian authorities in 1965. Taabes was in fact Eli Cohen, now traveling under the persona invented for him by the Mossad who had determined that the best way for Cohen to infiltrate into Syria was through Argentina, home to a large and affluent Syrian community. Not too difficult a job for the Israeli pilots, as all they had to do was aim for the eucalyptus trees planted at Cohen’s suggestion. Angry, Cohen quit and took a job as an accountant with a department store chain. 1994 Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, BA in composition, jazz performance. San Diego Jewish World is intended as a forum for the entire Jewish community, whatever your political leanings. One of Cohen’ earliest reports warned of an imminent armored attack into Israel. Mainstream media broadcast rare footage on Tuesday of the execution by hanging of Israeli spy Eli Cohen, and the removal of his body from the gallows in a … Eli Cohen’s adjustment to Israel was not easy. Legendary spy Eli Cohen's widow Nadia visited Buenos Aires last week with her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren to see where Eli Cohen lived and worked as a spy. They would have three children, Sophie, Irit and Shai. Much of the intelligence that Eli Cohen forwarded to Israel remains classified but some has become public. The Syrians in trying to track down security leaks were using a state of the art Soviet wireless scanner in Cohen’s neighborhood just at the time he was transmitting. Cohen forwarded to Israel, detailed plans of Syria’s scheme to starve Israel of water by diverting the headwaters of the Jordan River. These high placed Syrians particularly enjoyed the use of his bachelor pad for assignations with various women. During this period he learned the language, socialized, built himself a persona, and established contacts with businessmen, diplomats, and Syrian military attachés for the purpose of his mission. As a result, a preventative assault by planes and artillery was ordered upon the Syrian base thus thwarting the attack. Send an Email. I will try to be like you, father. On his return to Egypt, Cohen worked as a radio operator, transmitting intelligence to Israel. The Mossad has a policy of not accepting volunteers as field agents fearing that they may be adventurers.

He learned weapons proficiency, unarmed combat, sabotage, radio transmission, cryptography, surveillance, evasive techniques and because he was selected to operate in Syria, to change his Egyptian accented Arabic to the Syrian dialect. Cohen was recruited by the Mossad in 1960 and sent to Argentina, where he posed as an exiled Syrian businessman named Kamel Amin Tabet. Join Facebook to connect with Shai Cohen and others you may know. They waited for Cohen to settle comfortably into life in Israel so that the only motive to join the Mossad would be desire to serve country. He carried with him a powerful miniature radio transmitter hidden in the false bottom of a food mixer, the cord of his electric razor serving as the antenna, cyanide tablets disguised as aspirin, high explosive chemicals hidden in toothpaste tubes and cans of shaving cream and the finest camera equipment. Shai Cohen is on Facebook. In 1950, Cohen’s family, with his help, emigrated to Israel but he stayed. The game ended when President al-Hafez, who had personally been duped by Cohen, ordered a show trial. Any amount helps! They had foreign governments including Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker plead for mercy. After three years in which he transferred tremendously valuable intelligence to Israel, Cohen was caught and sent to the gallows. Cohen was recruited by the Mossad in 1960 and sent to Argentina, where he posed as an exiled Syrian businessman named Kamel Amin Tabet. He was recruited by a Mossad operative nicknamed ‘the Dervish’ who, after a long period of questioning and a battery of medical and psychological tests, invited Cohen to join. Two years after the death of Eli Cohen, the six-day war erupted. The last chapter is yet to be written. Israel captured the Golan Heights in two days but first had to destroy the Syrian gun emplacements and fortified bunkers of the Golan escarpment. Reproduction of Israeli stamp honoring Eli Cohen, DM Liberman attends ceremony for late spy Eli Cohen. During this period he learned the language, socialized, built himself a persona, and established contacts with businessmen, diplomats, and Syrian military attachés for the purpose of his mission. In 1963, as a result of a coup, Cohen’s old friend from Argentina, Amin al-Hafez became President of Syria. Cohen accepted.
Join Facebook to connect with Shai Cohen and others you may know. In meetings with local Jewish leaders and Israeli representatives, Nadia said that for the family, it was a very moving experience, sitting in cafes and eating at the restaurants where Eli was - especially because they had no hope of retrieving his body from Syria. Syria understood the message. Someday Eli Cohen may find his eternal rest in Israel. Eli Cohen was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on December 26, 1924, the second of eight children in a family of orthodox Jews. Finally, he was offered a job in the Ministry of Defense translating Arab newspapers into Hebrew and analyzing their contents. That is my pledge.”. Dr. Shai Cohen is a composer, educator, and jazz performer, chairman of the Israel Composers' League and an active member in ACUM, specializes in diverse fields ranging from free-improvisation to electronic and contemporary classical music. As a result, there sprung up in Egypt a branch of the Jewish organization set up in Palestine to smuggle Jews into the territory. Cohen was twice taken into custody by the Egyptian Intelligence Service on suspicion of clandestine activities but both times was released for lack of evidence. composer, educator, CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — On July 29, 1977, at Kfar Habad, a village near Tel Aviv, a bar mitzvah was in progress. All efforts were in vain. __________________________________________________________________, Our latest stories delivered to your inbox daily, Example: Yes, I would like to receive emails from San Diego Jewish World. 2007 Bar - Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Doctor of Philosophy in Music, PHD in composition. After reading from the Torah, 13 year old, Shai Cohen spoke, “I promise you, father, that in my life I will never fail you. Cohen spent his days cultivating his friends who were increasingly becoming the most influential and powerful men in Syria. During each of his first three years in Syria, Cohen took an extended business trip abroad. His remarkable memory permitted him to map what he had seen all of which made its way back to Israel. 3, 2019 | PAIN EXPANDS THE TIME - for chamber ensemble | Austria | Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna | ensemble wiener collage | World premiere, Nov. 26, 2018 | I HEARD THE OLD MEN SAY - for chamber ensemble | Vietnam | Hanoi | The 3rd Asia-Europe New Music Festival | World premiere, Oct. 22, 2018 | CAN YOU HEAR WOODEN MAN - for percussion ensemble | Taipei National University of the Arts | Taiwan | 35th Asian Composers League Conference and Festival | World premiere, Oct. 4, 2018 | ABSENCE OF YESTERDAY - for chamber ensemble | Tel-Aviv | Israel | Meitar Ensemble | World premiere. He rented an apartment purposely located across the street from Syrian Army headquarters and went about setting up an import-export business, the hollowed out legs of his shipped furniture serving as hiding places for microfilm and written notes, which circuitously made their way to Israel. Cohen joined. You may contact him via joe.spier@sdjewishworld.com, or post your comment on this website provided that the rules below are observed. Cohen passed on information regarding the modernization, equipping and retraining of the Syrian military by Russia including close-up photographs of Russia’s newest MIG 21 fighter, data on the arrival into Syria of the advanced Soviet T54 tank, and a complete set of Russian made plans for how Syria could cut off Northern Israel in a surprise attack. As a result, Israel was able to foil their plans by bombing the earthmoving equipment.

All pleas have been rejected. and jazz performer, Shai specializes in diverse fields ranging from free-improvisation to electronic and contemporary classical music, June 16, 2019 | NEW COMPOSITION - for string quartet | The Levinsky College of Education | Israel | Carmel Quartet | World premiere, Mar.

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