Overview

• The Mossad, in collaboration with an allied intelligence service, successfully transferred Syria’s official archive on Eli Cohen to Israel in a covert operation.
• The archive comprises 2,500 items, including documents, photographs, personal effects, and the original death sentence, many of which are being made public for the first time.
• Key recovered items include Cohen’s handwritten letters, surveillance notebooks, Damascus apartment keys, and false identity documents used during his undercover missions.
• Eli Cohen’s intelligence work was instrumental in Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War, though his body remains unrecovered after his 1965 execution in Damascus.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized the archive’s importance as an educational resource and a symbol of Israel’s commitment to repatriating its missing operatives.