Overview

• The archive includes documents, recordings, photographs, personal items, and a handwritten will, all collected by Syrian intelligence after Cohen's capture in 1965.
• Eli Cohen, a Mossad spy who infiltrated Syria under the alias Kamal Amin Taabet, was executed in Damascus in 1965 after providing intelligence critical to Israel's 1967 Six-Day War victory.
• The operation to recover the archive was conducted by Mossad with assistance from an allied foreign intelligence service.
• Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa approved the archive's handover as a goodwill gesture to reduce hostilities and strengthen ties with the United States.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that Israel is continuing efforts to locate and repatriate Cohen’s remains.