Salih Sirriya was born in Ijzim, near Haifa, in 1933 where he would later join the Islamic Liberation Party and be introduced to the Islamist theories.[28] Several years later after traveling the Middle East, he settled in Cairo where the Muslim Brotherhood sparked his interest.[29] “Unlike Shukri, Sirriya created no counter-society and organized no hijra to Cairo’s furnished flats.”.[30] Even though they disagreed with the jahiliyya society under Sadat, Sirriya and his followers remained in Cairo living normal lives planning a coup d’e’tat.[31] On April 18, 1974 Sirriya had organized a student ambush at the Military Academy in Heliopolis to hijack the armory and assassinate Sadat.[32] The plan failed and Sirriya was arrested, tried, and sentenced to death along with another organizer.[33]