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      • Eli Cohen (Hebrew: אלי כהן; born 18 December 1940) is an Israeli actor and film director. In 1989 his film Summer of Aviya won the Silver Bear Award from the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. Six years later, his film Under the Domim Tree was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.
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  2. Eli Cohen ( Hebrew: אלי כהן; born 18 December 1940) is an Israeli actor and film director. In 1989 his film Summer of Aviya won the Silver Bear Award from the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. [1]

    • Who Was Eli Cohen?
    • What Did Eli Cohen Do as A Mossad Agent?
    • Who Was Amin Al-Hafez?
    • What Is The Ba’ath Party?
    • What Happened to Eli Cohen?

    Eliyahu (Eli) Cohen, an Egyptian Jew, was born in Alexandria in 1924. As a young adult, he worked within Egypt to secretly assist other Egyptian Jews in emigrating to Israel. Cohen later became part of an Israeli spy network in Egypt, which was uncovered and dismantled by Egyptian authorities in 1954. Arriving in Israel after the 1956 Suez Crisis, ...

    In South America, Cohen (or Thabet, as his Syrian associates would have known him) posed as a wealthy businessman. He succeeded in gaining the friendship of many influential members of Syria’s community abroad before traveling to Damascus in early 1962 carrying their invaluable letters of introduction. There, he carried on a high-powered social lif...

    In the show, Cohen skillfully establishes himself within the Syrian community in Buenos Aires, eventually meeting Colonel Amin al-Hafez (Waleed Zuaiter), a high profile Syrian officer put out to pasture in Argentina as Syria’s military attaché. The real Amin al-Hafez really did befriend Cohen in South America. Later, after Hafez returned to Syria a...

    The Spy shows Cohen growing close to Hafez and a group of Syrian conspirators known as the Ba’ath Party, who are preparing to seize power in the country. In real life, the group of radicals took power in Syria in March 1963. The Ba’athists were a group of primarily secular Arab nationalists who opposed colonialism and promoted socialism, militarism...

    In late 1964, Cohen went home to Israel for leave. When he returned to Syria, the spy again began transmitting coded dispatches to the Israelis, often broadcasting at the same time each day, an error that would make it easy for Syrian counterintelligence to trace his transmitter. Likely aided by Soviet radio-detection equipment, Syrian soldiers bro...

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  3. Sep 5, 2019 · True Story Of The Spy Netflix Show. Who Is Eli Cohen? The Unbelievable True Story Behind The Spy On Netflix. Elena Nicolaou. Last Updated September 5, 2019, 10:35 AM. PHoto: Courtesy of Netflix....

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  4. Sep 7, 2019 · Legendary Israeli agent Eli Cohen embedded himself into the upper crust of Syrian society, providing intelligence to the Jewish state crucial to its victory in 1967's Six Day War.

  5. The Spy: Created by Gideon Raff. With Sacha Baron Cohen, Noah Emmerich, Hadar Ratzon Rotem, Alexander Siddig. Based on the life of Israeli spy Eli Cohen.

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    • 2019-09-06
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  6. The Spy is a French English-language espionage television miniseries, created and directed by Gideon Raff, based on the life of Israel's top Mossad spy Eli Cohen, who is portrayed by Sacha Baron Cohen.

  7. Cohen will play Eli Cohen, an Israeli Mossad spy who goes undercover as Kamal Amin Sebet, a member of the Syrian social elite who befriends an influential sheik in order to learn about the Syrian government’s anti-Israeli machinations.