Overview

• Mossad, with support from an allied intelligence service, conducted a covert operation to retrieve Eli Cohen’s archive from Syrian intelligence safes after 60 years.
• The recovered trove includes over 2,500 items, such as personal effects, mission records, photographs, and letters written by Cohen to his family.
• Eli Cohen, posing as Kamel Amin Thaabet, infiltrated Syria’s political and military leadership in the 1960s, providing intelligence credited with aiding Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented the recovered items to Cohen’s widow, Nadia Cohen, in a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of his public execution in Damascus.
• Efforts to locate and repatriate Cohen’s remains continue as part of Israel’s broader commitment to honoring and recovering missing operatives.