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Fifty-eight years after the execution of the famous Israeli secret agent in Syria, his daughter tries to restore the truth about her father. Revelations.
From our special correspondent in Tel-Aviv Julien Peyron (with Danièle Kriegel in Jerusalem)
Gallows. Eli Cohen was hanged in a public square in Damascus on May 18, 1965. On his body are the main lines of the judgment confirming this conviction. Syria still refuses to return the remains to the family.
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SSaturday, January 14, Habma Square, in the heart of Tel Aviv: Sophie Ben-Dor stands motionless among tens of thousands of other Israelis. She does not consider herself an opponent of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, but she insisted on going to the demonstration against the “undemocratic drift” of the new government. A man looks at her, approaches. He falls into her arms and begins to sob: “I love you and your family so much. » Sophie Ben-Dor would have preferred to remain anonymous in the crowd that day, but she is used to this kind of scene. She is the daughter of Eli Cohen, the star Mossad spy, executed in 1965 in Syria and considered one of the best of all time. “For the Israelis, he is a legend, confide…
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