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	Cohen was found guilty of espionage by a military tribunal and sentenced to death under martial law. He had been repeatedly interrogated and tortured.<ref name=chronology/><ref name=thomas/>		Cohen was found guilty of espionage by a military tribunal and sentenced to death under martial law. He had been repeatedly interrogated and tortured.<ref name=chronology/><ref name=thomas/>

	[[Israel]] staged an international campaign for clemency, hoping to persuade [[Syria]] to not execute him. Israeli foreign minister [[Golda Meir]] led a campaign urging [[Damascus]] to consider the consequences of hanging him. Diplomats, prime ministers, parliamentarians, and [[Pope Paul VI]] tried to intercede. Meir even appealed to the [[Soviet Union]].<ref name=thomas/> The governments of [[Belgium]], [[Canada]], and [[France]] tried to persuade the Syrian government to commute the death sentence,<ref>{{cite web\|author=Sanua, V.\|url=http://www.sefarad.org/publication/lm/043/10.html\|title=The History of Elie Cohen: An Egyptian Jew who became Israel's greatest spy\|website=sefarad.org\|access-date=18 May 2017\|archive-date=7 May 2012\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120507011443/http://www.sefarad.org/publication/lm/043/10.html\|url-status=dead}}</ref> but the Syrians refused. Nadia Cohen attempted to appeal for clemency at the Syrian Embassy in [[Paris]] but was turned away. Cohen wrote in his final letter on 15 May 1965:<ref name="chronology"/>		[[Israel]] staged an international campaign for clemency, hoping to persuade [[Syria]] not to execute him. Israeli foreign minister [[Golda Meir]] led a campaign urging [[Damascus]] to consider the consequences of hanging him. Diplomats, prime ministers, parliamentarians, and [[Pope Paul VI]] tried to intercede. Meir even appealed to the [[Soviet Union]].<ref name=thomas/> The governments of [[Belgium]], [[Canada]], and [[France]] tried to persuade the Syrian government to commute the death sentence,<ref>{{cite web\|author=Sanua, V.\|url=http://www.sefarad.org/publication/lm/043/10.html\|title=The History of Elie Cohen: An Egyptian Jew who became Israel's greatest spy\|website=sefarad.org\|access-date=18 May 2017\|archive-date=7 May 2012\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120507011443/http://www.sefarad.org/publication/lm/043/10.html\|url-status=dead}}</ref> but the Syrians refused. Nadia Cohen attempted to appeal for clemency at the Syrian Embassy in [[Paris]] but was turned away. Cohen wrote in his final letter on 15 May 1965:<ref name="chronology"/>
	<blockquote>I am begging you, my dear Nadia, not to spend your time in weeping about something already passed. Concentrate on yourself, looking forward for a better future!</blockquote>		<blockquote>I am begging you, my dear Nadia, not to spend your time in weeping about something already passed. Concentrate on yourself, looking forward for a better future!</blockquote>

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	Cohen continued his social life as he had in Argentina, spending time in cafes listening to political gossip. He also held parties at his home for high-placed Syrian ministers, businessmen, and others. At these parties, Cohen "dispensed free-flowing liquor and prostitutes"<ref name="NYT"/> and highly-placed officials would openly discuss their work and army plans. Cohen would pretend to be drunk to encourage such conversations, to which he paid close attention. He would also lend money to government officials, and many came to him for advice.<ref name="EliCohen_JVL"/>		Cohen continued his social life as he had in Argentina, spending time in cafes listening to political gossip. He also held parties at his home for high-placed Syrian ministers, businessmen, and others. At these parties, Cohen "dispensed free-flowing liquor and prostitutes"<ref name="NYT"/> and highly-placed officials would openly discuss their work and army plans. Cohen would pretend to be drunk to encourage such conversations, to which he paid close attention. He would also lend money to government officials, and many came to him for advice.<ref name="EliCohen_JVL"/>

	Cohen provided an extensive amount and wide range of intelligence data for the Israeli Army between 1961 and 1965. He sent intelligence to Israel by radio, secret letters, and occasionally in person; he secretly travelled to ~~Syria~~ three times.<ref name="hadracha"/> His most famous achievement was the tour of the [[Golan Heights]] in which he collected intelligence on the Syrian fortifications there. According to an unconfirmed but widely believed story, he feigned sympathy for the soldiers exposed to the sun and had trees planted at every position, placed to provide shade. The Israel Defense Forces were alleged to have used the trees as targeting markers during the [[Six-Day War]], which enabled Israel to capture the Golan Heights in two days.<ref>{{cite book\|last=Dunstan\|first=Simon\|title=The Six Day War 1967: Jordan and Syria\|year=2013\|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing\|isbn=978-1472801975\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Vy1CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA22 }}</ref> Cohen made repeated visits to the southern frontier zone, providing photographs and sketches of Syrian positions.<ref>{{cite book\|last=Black\|first=Ian\|title=Israel's secret wars : a history of Israel's intelligence services\|year=2003\|publisher=Grove Press\|location=New York\|isbn=978-0-8021-3286-4\|page=227\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WFm21j2sZBAC&q=%22eli+cohen%22+1964+mossad&pg=PA227\|edition=[Updated to include the Persian Gulf War]\|author2=Morris, Benny}}</ref> He also learned of a secret plan to create three successive lines of bunkers and mortars; the Israel Defense Forces would otherwise have expected to encounter only a single line.<ref name=katz/><ref>{{cite book\|last=Youssef\|first=Michael\|title=You want me to do what?: Get off your blessed assurance and do something!\|year=2009\|publisher=Faith Words\|location=New York\|isbn=978-0-446-57958-2\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DdAe7si-g2IC&q=%22eli+cohen%22+bunkers&pg=PT24\|edition=1st}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|last=Aldouby\|first=Zwy\|title=The shattered silence: the Eli Cohen affair\|year=1971\|publisher=Coward, McCann & Geoghegan\|url=https://archive.org/details/shatteredsilence00aldo\|url-access=registration\|quote=eli cohen bunkers three lines.}}</ref> Cohen was able to find out that the Syrians planned to divert the Jordan River headwaters in an attempt to deprive Israel of water resources, providing information to Israeli forces that enabled them to destroy the equipment prepared for the task during the [[War over Water (Jordan River)\|"War over Water"]].<ref>{{cite book\|last=Carmichael\|first=Thomas\|title=The Secret Services handbook\|year=2006\|publisher=Barnes & Noble\|isbn=9780760784013\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iWWaTQH5ikgC&q=Cohen+was+also+able+to+warn+Israel+of+a+plot+to+divert+a+key+water+source,+providing+the+Israeli+military+with+an+opportunity+to+destroy+the+bulldozers+and+other+equipment+lined+up+for+the+task }}</ref> It is claimed that the intelligence that Cohen gathered before his arrest was an important factor in Israel's success in the Six-Day War,<ref>{{cite magazine\|last=Javits\|first=Jacob\|title=Superspy in an unholy war\|magazine=Life\|date=9 July 1971\|volume=71\|issue=2\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PkAEAAAAMBAJ&q=eli+cohen+six+day+war&pg=PA15-IA2\|access-date=30 August 2011}}</ref> although some intelligence experts have argued that the information he provided about the Golan Heights fortifications was also readily available from ground and aerial reconnaissance.<ref name=blackAndmorris>{{cite book \| author = Ian Black and Benny Morris \| title = Israel's Secret Wars \| page = 228 \| year = 1992 \| publisher = Futura}}</ref>		Cohen provided an extensive amount and wide range of intelligence data for the Israeli Army between 1961 and 1965. He sent intelligence to Israel by radio, secret letters, and occasionally in person; he secretly travelled to Israel three times.<ref name="hadracha"/> His most famous achievement was the tour of the [[Golan Heights]] in which he collected intelligence on the Syrian fortifications there. According to an unconfirmed but widely believed story, he feigned sympathy for the soldiers exposed to the sun and had trees planted at every position, placed to provide shade. The Israel Defense Forces were alleged to have used the trees as targeting markers during the [[Six-Day War]], which enabled Israel to capture the Golan Heights in two days.<ref>{{cite book\|last=Dunstan\|first=Simon\|title=The Six Day War 1967: Jordan and Syria\|year=2013\|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing\|isbn=978-1472801975\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Vy1CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA22 }}</ref> Cohen made repeated visits to the southern frontier zone, providing photographs and sketches of Syrian positions.<ref>{{cite book\|last=Black\|first=Ian\|title=Israel's secret wars : a history of Israel's intelligence services\|year=2003\|publisher=Grove Press\|location=New York\|isbn=978-0-8021-3286-4\|page=227\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WFm21j2sZBAC&q=%22eli+cohen%22+1964+mossad&pg=PA227\|edition=[Updated to include the Persian Gulf War]\|author2=Morris, Benny}}</ref> He also learned of a secret plan to create three successive lines of bunkers and mortars; the Israel Defense Forces would otherwise have expected to encounter only a single line.<ref name=katz/><ref>{{cite book\|last=Youssef\|first=Michael\|title=You want me to do what?: Get off your blessed assurance and do something!\|year=2009\|publisher=Faith Words\|location=New York\|isbn=978-0-446-57958-2\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DdAe7si-g2IC&q=%22eli+cohen%22+bunkers&pg=PT24\|edition=1st}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|last=Aldouby\|first=Zwy\|title=The shattered silence: the Eli Cohen affair\|year=1971\|publisher=Coward, McCann & Geoghegan\|url=https://archive.org/details/shatteredsilence00aldo\|url-access=registration\|quote=eli cohen bunkers three lines.}}</ref> Cohen was able to find out that the Syrians planned to divert the Jordan River headwaters in an attempt to deprive Israel of water resources, providing information to Israeli forces that enabled them to destroy the equipment prepared for the task during the [[War over Water (Jordan River)\|"War over Water"]].<ref>{{cite book\|last=Carmichael\|first=Thomas\|title=The Secret Services handbook\|year=2006\|publisher=Barnes & Noble\|isbn=9780760784013\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iWWaTQH5ikgC&q=Cohen+was+also+able+to+warn+Israel+of+a+plot+to+divert+a+key+water+source,+providing+the+Israeli+military+with+an+opportunity+to+destroy+the+bulldozers+and+other+equipment+lined+up+for+the+task }}</ref> It is claimed that the intelligence that Cohen gathered before his arrest was an important factor in Israel's success in the Six-Day War,<ref>{{cite magazine\|last=Javits\|first=Jacob\|title=Superspy in an unholy war\|magazine=Life\|date=9 July 1971\|volume=71\|issue=2\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PkAEAAAAMBAJ&q=eli+cohen+six+day+war&pg=PA15-IA2\|access-date=30 August 2011}}</ref> although some intelligence experts have argued that the information he provided about the Golan Heights fortifications was also readily available from ground and aerial reconnaissance.<ref name=blackAndmorris>{{cite book \| author = Ian Black and Benny Morris \| title = Israel's Secret Wars \| page = 228 \| year = 1992 \| publisher = Futura}}</ref>

	A 2018 article published in ''[[Newsweek]]'' by [[Ronen Bergman]] excerpted from Bergman's book ''[[Rise and Kill First]]'', says that Eli Cohen located [[Alois Brunner]], a former Nazi official and Holocaust perpetrator suspected of living in Syria, and relayed the information to an Israeli intelligence unit that subsequently sent letter bombs to Brunner.<ref name="Bergman">{{cite news\|last1=Bergman\|first1=Ronen\|author-link1=Ronen Bergman\|title=Israel's secret war against Hitler's scientists\|url=http://www.newsweek.com/2018/04/20/israel-secret-war-mossad-hitler-scientists-world-war-ii-egypt-nasser-883630.html\|access-date=25 May 2018\|work=Newsweek\|date=12 April 2018\|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Jean-Robert \|first=Alain \|last2=Gibbons \|first2=Fiachra \|date=11 January 2017 \|title=Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner died in Syria basement in 2001 – report \|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/nazi-war-criminal-alois-brunner-died-in-syria-basement-in-2001-report/ \|access-date=8 April 2023 \|website=www.timesofisrael.com \|language=en-US}}</ref>		A 2018 article published in ''[[Newsweek]]'' by [[Ronen Bergman]] excerpted from Bergman's book ''[[Rise and Kill First]]'', says that Eli Cohen located [[Alois Brunner]], a former Nazi official and Holocaust perpetrator suspected of living in Syria, and relayed the information to an Israeli intelligence unit that subsequently sent letter bombs to Brunner.<ref name="Bergman">{{cite news\|last1=Bergman\|first1=Ronen\|author-link1=Ronen Bergman\|title=Israel's secret war against Hitler's scientists\|url=http://www.newsweek.com/2018/04/20/israel-secret-war-mossad-hitler-scientists-world-war-ii-egypt-nasser-883630.html\|access-date=25 May 2018\|work=Newsweek\|date=12 April 2018\|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Jean-Robert \|first=Alain \|last2=Gibbons \|first2=Fiachra \|date=11 January 2017 \|title=Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner died in Syria basement in 2001 – report \|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/nazi-war-criminal-alois-brunner-died-in-syria-basement-in-2001-report/ \|access-date=8 April 2023 \|website=www.timesofisrael.com \|language=en-US}}</ref>

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	Cohen continued his social life as he had in Argentina, spending time in cafes listening to political gossip. He also held parties at his home for high-placed Syrian ministers, businessmen, and others. At these parties, Cohen "dispensed free-flowing liquor and prostitutes"<ref name="NYT"/> and highly-placed officials would openly discuss their work and army plans. Cohen would pretend to be drunk to encourage such conversations, to which he paid close attention. He would also lend money to government officials, and many came to him for advice.<ref name="EliCohen_JVL"/>		Cohen continued his social life as he had in Argentina, spending time in cafes listening to political gossip. He also held parties at his home for high-placed Syrian ministers, businessmen, and others. At these parties, Cohen "dispensed free-flowing liquor and prostitutes"<ref name="NYT"/> and highly-placed officials would openly discuss their work and army plans. Cohen would pretend to be drunk to encourage such conversations, to which he paid close attention. He would also lend money to government officials, and many came to him for advice.<ref name="EliCohen_JVL"/>

	Cohen provided an extensive amount and wide range of intelligence data for the Israeli Army between 1961 and 1965. He sent intelligence to Israel by radio, secret letters, and occasionally in person; he secretly travelled to ~~Israel~~ three times.<ref name="hadracha"/> His most famous achievement was the tour of the [[Golan Heights]] in which he collected intelligence on the Syrian fortifications there. According to an unconfirmed but widely believed story, he feigned sympathy for the soldiers exposed to the sun and had trees planted at every position, placed to provide shade. The Israel Defense Forces were alleged to have used the trees as targeting markers during the [[Six-Day War]], which enabled Israel to capture the Golan Heights in two days.<ref>{{cite book\|last=Dunstan\|first=Simon\|title=The Six Day War 1967: Jordan and Syria\|year=2013\|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing\|isbn=978-1472801975\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Vy1CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA22 }}</ref> Cohen made repeated visits to the southern frontier zone, providing photographs and sketches of Syrian positions.<ref>{{cite book\|last=Black\|first=Ian\|title=Israel's secret wars : a history of Israel's intelligence services\|year=2003\|publisher=Grove Press\|location=New York\|isbn=978-0-8021-3286-4\|page=227\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WFm21j2sZBAC&q=%22eli+cohen%22+1964+mossad&pg=PA227\|edition=[Updated to include the Persian Gulf War]\|author2=Morris, Benny}}</ref> He also learned of a secret plan to create three successive lines of bunkers and mortars; the Israel Defense Forces would otherwise have expected to encounter only a single line.<ref name=katz/><ref>{{cite book\|last=Youssef\|first=Michael\|title=You want me to do what?: Get off your blessed assurance and do something!\|year=2009\|publisher=Faith Words\|location=New York\|isbn=978-0-446-57958-2\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DdAe7si-g2IC&q=%22eli+cohen%22+bunkers&pg=PT24\|edition=1st}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|last=Aldouby\|first=Zwy\|title=The shattered silence: the Eli Cohen affair\|year=1971\|publisher=Coward, McCann & Geoghegan\|url=https://archive.org/details/shatteredsilence00aldo\|url-access=registration\|quote=eli cohen bunkers three lines.}}</ref> Cohen was able to find out that the Syrians planned to divert the Jordan River headwaters in an attempt to deprive Israel of water resources, providing information to Israeli forces that enabled them to destroy the equipment prepared for the task during the [[War over Water (Jordan River)\|"War over Water"]].<ref>{{cite book\|last=Carmichael\|first=Thomas\|title=The Secret Services handbook\|year=2006\|publisher=Barnes & Noble\|isbn=9780760784013\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iWWaTQH5ikgC&q=Cohen+was+also+able+to+warn+Israel+of+a+plot+to+divert+a+key+water+source,+providing+the+Israeli+military+with+an+opportunity+to+destroy+the+bulldozers+and+other+equipment+lined+up+for+the+task }}</ref> It is claimed that the intelligence that Cohen gathered before his arrest was an important factor in Israel's success in the Six-Day War,<ref>{{cite magazine\|last=Javits\|first=Jacob\|title=Superspy in an unholy war\|magazine=Life\|date=9 July 1971\|volume=71\|issue=2\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PkAEAAAAMBAJ&q=eli+cohen+six+day+war&pg=PA15-IA2\|access-date=30 August 2011}}</ref> although some intelligence experts have argued that the information he provided about the Golan Heights fortifications was also readily available from ground and aerial reconnaissance.<ref name=blackAndmorris>{{cite book \| author = Ian Black and Benny Morris \| title = Israel's Secret Wars \| page = 228 \| year = 1992 \| publisher = Futura}}</ref>		Cohen provided an extensive amount and wide range of intelligence data for the Israeli Army between 1961 and 1965. He sent intelligence to Israel by radio, secret letters, and occasionally in person; he secretly travelled to Syria three times.<ref name="hadracha"/> His most famous achievement was the tour of the [[Golan Heights]] in which he collected intelligence on the Syrian fortifications there. According to an unconfirmed but widely believed story, he feigned sympathy for the soldiers exposed to the sun and had trees planted at every position, placed to provide shade. The Israel Defense Forces were alleged to have used the trees as targeting markers during the [[Six-Day War]], which enabled Israel to capture the Golan Heights in two days.<ref>{{cite book\|last=Dunstan\|first=Simon\|title=The Six Day War 1967: Jordan and Syria\|year=2013\|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing\|isbn=978-1472801975\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Vy1CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA22 }}</ref> Cohen made repeated visits to the southern frontier zone, providing photographs and sketches of Syrian positions.<ref>{{cite book\|last=Black\|first=Ian\|title=Israel's secret wars : a history of Israel's intelligence services\|year=2003\|publisher=Grove Press\|location=New York\|isbn=978-0-8021-3286-4\|page=227\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WFm21j2sZBAC&q=%22eli+cohen%22+1964+mossad&pg=PA227\|edition=[Updated to include the Persian Gulf War]\|author2=Morris, Benny}}</ref> He also learned of a secret plan to create three successive lines of bunkers and mortars; the Israel Defense Forces would otherwise have expected to encounter only a single line.<ref name=katz/><ref>{{cite book\|last=Youssef\|first=Michael\|title=You want me to do what?: Get off your blessed assurance and do something!\|year=2009\|publisher=Faith Words\|location=New York\|isbn=978-0-446-57958-2\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DdAe7si-g2IC&q=%22eli+cohen%22+bunkers&pg=PT24\|edition=1st}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|last=Aldouby\|first=Zwy\|title=The shattered silence: the Eli Cohen affair\|year=1971\|publisher=Coward, McCann & Geoghegan\|url=https://archive.org/details/shatteredsilence00aldo\|url-access=registration\|quote=eli cohen bunkers three lines.}}</ref> Cohen was able to find out that the Syrians planned to divert the Jordan River headwaters in an attempt to deprive Israel of water resources, providing information to Israeli forces that enabled them to destroy the equipment prepared for the task during the [[War over Water (Jordan River)\|"War over Water"]].<ref>{{cite book\|last=Carmichael\|first=Thomas\|title=The Secret Services handbook\|year=2006\|publisher=Barnes & Noble\|isbn=9780760784013\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iWWaTQH5ikgC&q=Cohen+was+also+able+to+warn+Israel+of+a+plot+to+divert+a+key+water+source,+providing+the+Israeli+military+with+an+opportunity+to+destroy+the+bulldozers+and+other+equipment+lined+up+for+the+task }}</ref> It is claimed that the intelligence that Cohen gathered before his arrest was an important factor in Israel's success in the Six-Day War,<ref>{{cite magazine\|last=Javits\|first=Jacob\|title=Superspy in an unholy war\|magazine=Life\|date=9 July 1971\|volume=71\|issue=2\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PkAEAAAAMBAJ&q=eli+cohen+six+day+war&pg=PA15-IA2\|access-date=30 August 2011}}</ref> although some intelligence experts have argued that the information he provided about the Golan Heights fortifications was also readily available from ground and aerial reconnaissance.<ref name=blackAndmorris>{{cite book \| author = Ian Black and Benny Morris \| title = Israel's Secret Wars \| page = 228 \| year = 1992 \| publisher = Futura}}</ref>

	A 2018 article published in ''[[Newsweek]]'' by [[Ronen Bergman]] excerpted from Bergman's book ''[[Rise and Kill First]]'', says that Eli Cohen located [[Alois Brunner]], a former Nazi official and Holocaust perpetrator suspected of living in Syria, and relayed the information to an Israeli intelligence unit that subsequently sent letter bombs to Brunner.<ref name="Bergman">{{cite news\|last1=Bergman\|first1=Ronen\|author-link1=Ronen Bergman\|title=Israel's secret war against Hitler's scientists\|url=http://www.newsweek.com/2018/04/20/israel-secret-war-mossad-hitler-scientists-world-war-ii-egypt-nasser-883630.html\|access-date=25 May 2018\|work=Newsweek\|date=12 April 2018\|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Jean-Robert \|first=Alain \|last2=Gibbons \|first2=Fiachra \|date=11 January 2017 \|title=Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner died in Syria basement in 2001 – report \|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/nazi-war-criminal-alois-brunner-died-in-syria-basement-in-2001-report/ \|access-date=8 April 2023 \|website=www.timesofisrael.com \|language=en-US}}</ref>		A 2018 article published in ''[[Newsweek]]'' by [[Ronen Bergman]] excerpted from Bergman's book ''[[Rise and Kill First]]'', says that Eli Cohen located [[Alois Brunner]], a former Nazi official and Holocaust perpetrator suspected of living in Syria, and relayed the information to an Israeli intelligence unit that subsequently sent letter bombs to Brunner.<ref name="Bergman">{{cite news\|last1=Bergman\|first1=Ronen\|author-link1=Ronen Bergman\|title=Israel's secret war against Hitler's scientists\|url=http://www.newsweek.com/2018/04/20/israel-secret-war-mossad-hitler-scientists-world-war-ii-egypt-nasser-883630.html\|access-date=25 May 2018\|work=Newsweek\|date=12 April 2018\|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Jean-Robert \|first=Alain \|last2=Gibbons \|first2=Fiachra \|date=11 January 2017 \|title=Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner died in Syria basement in 2001 – report \|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/nazi-war-criminal-alois-brunner-died-in-syria-basement-in-2001-report/ \|access-date=8 April 2023 \|website=www.timesofisrael.com \|language=en-US}}</ref>

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	Though he was initially successful, his activity became increasingly risky and he expressed a sense of impending danger to [[Mossad]] in 1964. A year later, Cohen's true allegiance was uncovered by Syrian intelligence and he was convicted by the Syrian government under pre-war martial law. After being sentenced to death, he was publicly hanged in [[Damascus]] in May 1965. The incident contributed to the sharp escalation of hostilities between [[Israel]] and Syria just before the [[Six-Day War\|1967 Arab–Israeli War]].		Though he was initially successful, his activity became increasingly risky and he expressed a sense of impending danger to [[Mossad]] in 1964. A year later, Cohen's true allegiance was uncovered by Syrian intelligence and he was convicted by the Syrian government under pre-war martial law. After being sentenced to death, he was publicly hanged in [[Damascus]] in May 1965. The incident contributed to the sharp escalation of hostilities between [[Israel]] and Syria just before the [[Six-Day War\|1967 Arab–Israeli War]].

	He is highly regarded in Israel, with several streets and roads being named after him.		He is highly regarded in Israel, with several streets and roads being named after him.

	==Early life==		==Early life==

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	At the onset of the [[Jewish exodus from the Muslim world]], which began concurrently with the [[Arab–Israeli conflict]], Cohen's parents and three brothers [[Aliyah\|immigrated to Israel]] in 1949, but he stayed behind to complete his degree and also to help consolidate Zionist efforts among Egypt's Jewish community. Prior to the [[1952 Egyptian Revolution]], he was arrested and interrogated by Egyptian authorities, who were becoming suspicious of his activities.<ref name="chronology">{{cite web \|title=Eli Cohen – Chronology \|url=http://www.elicohen.org/resources/chronology.php \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719050640/http://www.elicohen.org/resources/chronology.php \|archive-date=19 July 2011 \|access-date=16 February 2011}}</ref>		At the onset of the [[Jewish exodus from the Muslim world]], which began concurrently with the [[Arab–Israeli conflict]], Cohen's parents and three brothers [[Aliyah\|immigrated to Israel]] in 1949, but he stayed behind to complete his degree and also to help consolidate Zionist efforts among Egypt's Jewish community. Prior to the [[1952 Egyptian Revolution]], he was arrested and interrogated by Egyptian authorities, who were becoming suspicious of his activities.<ref name="chronology">{{cite web \|title=Eli Cohen – Chronology \|url=http://www.elicohen.org/resources/chronology.php \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719050640/http://www.elicohen.org/resources/chronology.php \|archive-date=19 July 2011 \|access-date=16 February 2011}}</ref>

	Nonetheless, he continued to engage in various Israeli covert efforts in Egypt throughout the 1950s, although the Egyptian government could never prove his involvement in Operation Goshen, by which the Israeli government smuggled a significant number of Egypt's Jews out of the country and resettled them in Israel ~~amidst rising rates of government-backed [[Antisemitism in the Arab world\|Egyptian antisemitism]]~~.<ref name="hadracha">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.hadracha.org/sw/historyView.asp?method=r&historyID=77\|title=Online Hadracha Centrum\|website=hadracha.org}}</ref> Cohen is also said to have aided Egyptian Jews who were taking part in what would become known as the [[Lavon Affair]], by which Israel sought to sabotage Egypt's relationship with the [[Western world]]. Two members of the spy ring were caught and sentenced to death, but the Egyptian government was unable to find a link between Cohen and the perpetrators.<ref name="chronology" />		Nonetheless, he continued to engage in various Israeli covert efforts in Egypt throughout the 1950s, although the Egyptian government could never prove his involvement in Operation Goshen, by which the Israeli government smuggled a significant number of Egypt's Jews out of the country and resettled them in Israel.<ref name="hadracha">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.hadracha.org/sw/historyView.asp?method=r&historyID=77\|title=Online Hadracha Centrum\|website=hadracha.org}}</ref> Cohen is also said to have aided Egyptian Jews who were taking part in what would become known as the [[Lavon Affair]], by which Israel sought to sabotage Egypt's relationship with the [[Western world]]. Two members of the spy ring were caught and sentenced to death, but the Egyptian government was unable to find a link between Cohen and the perpetrators.<ref name="chronology" />

	=== Emigration from Egypt ===		=== Emigration from Egypt ===

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	At the onset of the [[Jewish exodus from the Muslim world]], which began concurrently with the [[Arab–Israeli conflict]], Cohen's parents and three brothers [[Aliyah\|immigrated to Israel]] in 1949, but he stayed behind to complete his degree and also to help consolidate Zionist efforts among Egypt's Jewish community. Prior to the [[1952 Egyptian Revolution]], he was arrested and interrogated by Egyptian authorities, who were becoming suspicious of his activities.<ref name="chronology">{{cite web \|title=Eli Cohen – Chronology \|url=http://www.elicohen.org/resources/chronology.php \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719050640/http://www.elicohen.org/resources/chronology.php \|archive-date=19 July 2011 \|access-date=16 February 2011}}</ref>		At the onset of the [[Jewish exodus from the Muslim world]], which began concurrently with the [[Arab–Israeli conflict]], Cohen's parents and three brothers [[Aliyah\|immigrated to Israel]] in 1949, but he stayed behind to complete his degree and also to help consolidate Zionist efforts among Egypt's Jewish community. Prior to the [[1952 Egyptian Revolution]], he was arrested and interrogated by Egyptian authorities, who were becoming suspicious of his activities.<ref name="chronology">{{cite web \|title=Eli Cohen – Chronology \|url=http://www.elicohen.org/resources/chronology.php \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719050640/http://www.elicohen.org/resources/chronology.php \|archive-date=19 July 2011 \|access-date=16 February 2011}}</ref>

	Nonetheless, he continued to engage in various Israeli covert efforts in Egypt throughout the 1950s, although the Egyptian government could never prove his involvement in Operation Goshen, by which the Israeli government smuggled a significant number of Egypt's Jews out of the country and resettled them in Israel amidst ~~spiking~~ rates of government-backed [[Antisemitism in the Arab world\|Egyptian antisemitism]].<ref name="hadracha">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.hadracha.org/sw/historyView.asp?method=r&historyID=77\|title=Online Hadracha Centrum\|website=hadracha.org}}</ref> Cohen is also said to have aided Egyptian Jews who were taking part in what would become known as the [[Lavon Affair]], by which Israel sought to sabotage Egypt's relationship with the [[Western world]]. Two members of the spy ring were caught and sentenced to death, but the Egyptian government was unable to find a link between Cohen and the perpetrators.<ref name="chronology" />		Nonetheless, he continued to engage in various Israeli covert efforts in Egypt throughout the 1950s, although the Egyptian government could never prove his involvement in Operation Goshen, by which the Israeli government smuggled a significant number of Egypt's Jews out of the country and resettled them in Israel amidst rising rates of government-backed [[Antisemitism in the Arab world\|Egyptian antisemitism]].<ref name="hadracha">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.hadracha.org/sw/historyView.asp?method=r&historyID=77\|title=Online Hadracha Centrum\|website=hadracha.org}}</ref> Cohen is also said to have aided Egyptian Jews who were taking part in what would become known as the [[Lavon Affair]], by which Israel sought to sabotage Egypt's relationship with the [[Western world]]. Two members of the spy ring were caught and sentenced to death, but the Egyptian government was unable to find a link between Cohen and the perpetrators.<ref name="chronology" />

	=== Emigration from Egypt ===		=== Emigration from Egypt ===

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	\| death_place = [[Damascus]], Syria		\| death_place = [[Damascus]], Syria
	\| death_cause = [[~~Espionage~~\|Execution by hanging]]		\| death_cause = [[Arab–Israeli conflict\|Execution by hanging]]
	\| spouse = {{marriage\|Nadia Majald\|1959}}		\| spouse = {{marriage\|Nadia Majald\|1959}}
	\| children = 3		\| children = 3

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	\| death_date = {{death date and age\|1965\|05\|18\|1924\|12\|16\|df=y}}		\| death_date = {{death date and age\|1965\|05\|18\|1924\|12\|16\|df=y}}
	\| death_place = [[Damascus]], Syria		\| death_place = [[Damascus]], Syria
	\| death_cause = [[~~Arab–Israeli conflict~~\|Execution by hanging]]		\| death_cause = [[Espionage\|Execution by hanging]]
	\| spouse = {{marriage\|Nadia Majald\|1959}}		\| spouse = {{marriage\|Nadia Majald\|1959}}
	\| children = 3		\| children = 3