New Mossad scandal: Eli Cohen's restored clock "Buy at auction"

The widow and daughter of Israeli spy Eli Cohen, who was executed in Syria in 1965, revealed that the process of restoring her watch was only a normal purchase on an online sales site in a major scandal after the prime minister.

The Israeli Mossad announced Thursday night that during a recent special operation conducted, it had restored the wristwatch worn by Israeli spy Eli Cohen, who had been executed in Syria in 1965. [19659005]] The disclosure of the details of "the special operation of Mossad" (participation in the auction of Ts "The Mossad told us a few months ago that they had reached the time from Cohen who was about to be sold, "said widow Cohen-Cohen to Army Radio."

: "We do not know where, nowhere, in any country, so they told us that they had, of course, the Mossad bought it. "

Cohen's daughter, speaking on FM 103, during which the Mossad said," I do not know not so it was allowed to publish it, but the clock was on sale in a hostile country and was purchased online. "

The Mossad Mossad conducted the studies and tests born needed to make sure they were Cohen's watch, and then they bought them. "

As soon as the Mossad announced that the clock was restored, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement congratulating Mossad, which he considered" their firm and courageous work that brought in Israel a memorial of a great fighter who has done much to strengthen the security of the state of Israel. "

Mossad leader Yossi Cohen said:" We will not forget never Eli Cohen. We are in constant contact with his wife and family. Eli wore this watch in Syria until the day he was arrested and the clock was part of his fake Arab identity. "

According to the Mossad, Cohen wore the watch until it was executed in Damascus on May 18, 1965.

And the Mossad carried out a special operation to send them back.

It continued after the Clock was reestablished, he conducted extensive tests in the Mossad's intelligence and research unit, and confirmed that the clock was the same as that of Cohen during his stay. Syria, and was considered to be part of his fictional "Arab" character there

The Mossad handed over the clock that was displayed

Cohen was born in Egypt, expelled from there in 1957. He emigrated to Israel in 1959. In 1959, he was recruited at Unit 188 of the Intelligence Service of the Israeli occupation army,

In 1961, he was sent to Argentina to cover him with 39 allegations that he was an Argentinian of Syrian origin named Kamal Amin Thabit.At the end of the same year he was sent to Europe as a representative of a Belgian company to send to Syria.

In January 1962, Cohen arrived in Syria and settled in Damascus. And established close relations with senior officials of the Syrian regime at that time, and was able to obtain special intelligence on the Syrian army and activity, the Golan Heights and the regime's decision-making process. In 1963 his military intelligence unit was transferred to Mossad

. In January 1965, Syrian security forces attacked Cohen's apartment in Damascus and were arrested while transmitting information to Israel. Two years later, he was tried and sentenced to death by hanging. The verdict was pronounced on May 18th.

The question of the recovery of his remains was raised during negotiations in the 1990s and during negotiations between Israel and Syria under the presidency of Ehud Olmert during the years 2007 and 2008.