More accurate and maybe more deep.
Eli Cohen's amazing life as Israel's best spy has been turned into a Netflix blockbuster.The family of Mossad super agent Eli Cohen today tell the real story of the man who inspired Sacha Baron Cohen's new Netflix blockbuster about his life.In the hit series, Israel's greatest-ever spy is shown as a 'philandering James Bond' with 17 lovers who got a cache of secrets out of.But Cohen's eldest daughter says Netflix sensationalised her father's legacy of an incredible espionage career that ended abruptly in 1965 when he was exposed in Damascus and executed.Speaking to MailOnline from her home in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sofia Ben-Dor said: 'The portrayal wasn't very deep or complex and it included many things that were from the director's imagination.
Newly-released Mossad files show pictures of the apartment where undercover agent lived at 375 Lavalle Street in the Argentine capital,The block of flats in at 375 Lavalle Street, Buenos Aries, looks remarkably similar today to how it looked when Cohen was living there for a short period at the beginning of the Sixties,While building his cover story in Buenos Aries, Cohen would often meet Syrian officials at Cafe Artaud as he posed as a wealthy exporter of furniture. Pictured: Cohen (second from the right) is seen working undercover in Beirut,Cohen was selected by Mossad for his mission because he spoke Arabic and his appearance could pass for Syrian. 'I think Sacha could have learned more if he had met me,' she said. "I was cooperating with the New Zealand Secret Intelligence Service, in cooperation with the Mossad, in order to help find the remains of the Israeli spy Eli Cohen," he said.Eli Cohen's widow: He's not worth a million dollars. '.She said the star bore a startling resemblance to her father despite being 6ft 2in when the super spy was a diminutive 5ft 6in.She added: 'Netflix used my father's life. Pictured: A photo taken covertly by Cohen of a Syrian military parade.The signal was coming from Cohen's home. His body was covered with anti-Zionist slogans and left hanging for six hours.His body has never been returned home despite pleas from his family to bury him in Tel Aviv.Sofia gave MailOnline newly-released photos from Mossad files that show him during surveillance training in Tel Aviv in 1961.She also showed photos of a cafe in Buenos Aries where he met Syrian diplomats and where he lived in the Argentina capital.Sofia said she was surprised that Sacha Baron Cohen made no attempt to contact the family prior to filming. Eli "Gedalia" Cohen was born circa 1922, at birth place, Illinois, to Louis Cohen and Ida "Chaje" Cohen (born Levin).
A noose was placed around his neck by a high-ranking Syrian government official who read the charges against Eli, who stood silently looking frightened. Welcome to the Cohen Camps Meet Our Leadership More than 85 years ago, Eli and Bessie Cohen realized the power of the immersive experience of summer camp …
"They didn't want to check it out? 'He wasn't a womaniser. 'But our lawyers said that against Netflix we didn't have a chance.
It was strange that his house was very modest. Eli Cohen had sacrificed everything for his people and now the badly humiliated Syrians were about to take revenge. He was not brave like it shows in the series. Born Eli Shaul Jundi Cohen in Alexandria in 1924, he studied at a lycee and Cairo Farouk University, where he spoke French, English and Arabic. A few days prior to his execution, he penned this poignant letter to his wife and family, knowing that it would be his last.The crowd of thousands of rowdy Syrians standing in Damascus’s Marjeh (Martyrs’) Square waited impatiently for the “big” moment.
But after Cohen shared intelligence with his bosses, the trees ended up being used years later by the Israelis to target underground Syrian bases.Cohen became so trusted in Syria that at one point he was even offered a senior role in the country's Defence Ministry.But his incredible haul of military secrets came to an abrupt end in 1965, when Syrian counter-intelligence decided to smoke out any spies in their country.They called in spooks from Russia's feared KGB security services, who brought specialist radio equipment to the Middle East which was able to pinpoint secret broadcasts being made inside Damascus.Cohen's cache of intelligence from behind enemy lines in Damascus where he worked his way up in the Syria's social elite was instrumental in Israel's defeat of Syria in the Six Day War.
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