Israel is attempting to find the remains of executed Mossad super agent Eli Cohen, according to reports. Cohen, a spy for Israel's feared intelligence agency, was hanged in Damascus in 1965 after his cover was blown. The agent, who was depicted by Sacha Baron Cohen in 2019 Netflix drama The Spy, was recruited by Mossad while working in Tel Aviv as a clerk for an insurance firm.
![[Two Palestinian officials claimed on Monday that Israel, via Russian mediators, was trying to find both Cohen's remains and those of a missing soldier. Above: Cohen with two unidentified co-defendants at his trial in Damascus, May 1965]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/10/93224869-14200845-image-a-3_1734431978960.jpg)
He was working under deep cover as an Argentinian-Syrian businessman called Amin Thaabet. Although his main task was to report on military and political developments in Syria, Cohen was also told to inform his bosses about Nazis living in the country's capital.
![[From February 1962, Cohen worked his way up Syria's elite, sending coded messages back to his homeland. Above: The spy with wife Nadia and his eldest daughter Sofia in 1961]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/10/18706838-14200845-Cohen_with_wife_Nadia_and_his_eldest_daughter_Sofia_in_1961_was_-a-13_1734432450982.jpg)
Among Mossad's top targets were war criminals Alois Brunner - the former deputy to Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann - and fellow mass murderer Franz Rademacher. He attempted to assassinate Rademacher with a letter bomb in 1962. Two Palestinian officials claimed on Monday that Israel, via Russian mediators, was trying to find both Cohen's remains and those of a missing soldier.
![[In The Spy, Cohen was depicted as a philanderer with 17 lovers who got a cache of secrets out of Syria's rich and powerful by hosting orgies with beautiful women]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/10/17279742-14200845-Cohen_played_by_the_Ali_G_and_Borat_creator_hosted_orgies_in_his-a-14_1734432529526.jpg)
Israel is attempting to find the remains of executed Mossad super agent Eli Cohen, according to reports. Cohen was depicted by Sacha Baron Cohen in 2019 Netflix drama The Spy. Cohen, a spy for Israel's feared intelligence agency, was hanged in Damascus in 1965 after his cover was blown.
![[Cohen told his wife Nadia that he had got a job as a furniture buyer with the Syrian Ministry of Defence to explain why he would be spending so much time away from her]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/10/18707032-14200845-Cohen_told_his_wife_Nadia_that_he_had_got_a_job_as_a_furniture_b-a-15_1734432541167.jpg)
Israel for years has been trying to find and repatriate the body of Cohen, and in 2021 a war monitor said Russian forces had been searching the Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in southern Damascus for his remains, along with those of two Israeli soldiers.
