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The black-and-white footage shows what appears to be Cohen’s body being lowered into a coffin after he was hanged in a public square in Damascus over 51 years ago, on May 18 of that year. His...
Eli Cohen, publicly hanged in the Marjeh Square, Damascus, on 18 May 1965. Cohen was found guilty of espionage by a military tribunal and sentenced to death under martial law. He had been repeatedly interrogated and tortured. Israel staged an international campaign for clemency, hoping to persuade Syria to not execute him.
Mossad chief David Barnea on Monday revealed the last message sent out by legendary Israeli spy Eli Cohen on the day of his capture in Syria, along with new information on what led to his...
Five days after arriving in Damascus, and having already managed to rent an apartment, Eli Cohen transmitted his first message back to headquarters in Israel – I have arrived safely. The Arrest. Eli Cohen served in Syria from January, 1962 until his arrest on January 18, 1965.
At one minute, 40 seconds, it depicts Cohen’s body draped with a placard listing his crimes hanging in a public square in Damascus, Syria.
On May 18, 1965, Eli Cohen, the Israeli intelligence agent who succeeded in penetrating the highest levels of Syria’s political and military elite before being arrested and convicted of espionage, was executed by hanging in Damascus’ Marjeh Square.
In the early hours of the morning on May 18, 1965, Syrians gather around Marjeh Square in Damascus. They've come to see the public hanging of Eli Cohen, a man once believed, even by the highest Syrian officials, to be a wealthy Arab businessman, only to be revealed as an Israeli spy.
