What is Eli Cohen?
[[File:Eli Cohen.jpg|thumb|right|Eli Cohen hanged in Damascus]] [[File:Eli cohen22.jpg|thumb|right|Empty grave of Eli Cohen at Mount Herzl]] '''Eliahu ben Shaoul Cohen''' ({{lang-he-n|אֱלִיָּהוּ בֵּן שָׁאוּל כֹּהֵן}}, 16 December 1924 – 18 May 1965) was a famous [[Israeli]] [[spy]]. He worked for the Israeli [[intelligence agency]] [[Mossad]]. He was caught and [[Execution|executed]] in [[Damascus]], [[Syria]]. His burial place is unknown and his body was never returned to Israel despite repeated requests by his widow and his family to bring him to be buried in Israel. A memorial tomb was built for him in the [[Garden of the Missing Soldiers]] in the national military and police cemetery in [[Mount Herzl]] in [[Jerusalem]]. His story of his life and his work for the Israeli secret services are documented in the [[International Spy Museum]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]. Cohen was born in [[Alexandria]], [[Egypt]] and died at the age of 40. == Other websites == * [http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=56024 Cohen's widow asks for his remains to be returned] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060808184808/http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=56024 |date=2006-08-08 }} Israel National News * [http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Archive/Speeches/2005/06/speech270605.htm PM's speech at the ceremony marking 40 years since the death of Eli Cohen] Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs * [http://www.spywise.net/cohenfiles.html The Eli Cohen Files] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090418204613/http://www.spywise.net/cohenfiles.html |date=2009-04-18 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Cohen, Eli}} [[Category:1965 deaths]] [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:Egyptian Jews]] [[Category:Israeli Jews]] [[Category:Mossad people]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of Israel]] [[Category:People executed by hanging]] [[Category:People from Alexandria]] [[Category:Spies]] {{bio-stub}}