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, netflix, TheSpay, mossad Eliyahu BenShaul Cohen, commonly known as Eli Cohen, was an Israeli spy. He is best known for his espionage work in 19611965 in Syria, where he developed close relationships with the Syrian political and military hierarchy, and became the chief adviser to the Minister of Defense. Syrian counterintelligence eventually uncovered the spy conspiracy and convicted Cohen under prewar martial law, sentencing him to death and hanging him publicly in 1965. Eli Cohen was born in 1924 in Alexandria, Egypt to a devout Mizrahi Jewish and Zionist family. His father had moved there from Aleppo in 1914, He studied at Cairo Farouk University. His parents and three brothers left for Israel in 1949, but he remained to finish a degree in electronics and to coordinate Jewish and Zionist activities. The government initiated an antiZionist campaign in 1951, after a military coup, and Cohen was arrested and interrogated over his Zionist activities. He took part in various Israeli