Israel Intensifies Efforts to Retrieve Body of Spy Eli Cohen from Syria

A detail of the commemorative stamp honoring Eli Cohen issued by the State of Israel in 2000, on the 34th anniversary of his hanging. Photo: Reuters.

i24 News – Israel has made contact with Syrian and foreign officials in a renewed effort to locate and repatriate the remains of spy Eli Cohen, according to the Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper on Saturday. This confirms an earlier report by i24NEWS after the fall of the Assad regime.

Cohen, who had infiltrated Syria under the identity of Kamel Amin Thaabet...