THE JEWISH LEADER, DECEMBER 30, 2016 9 work in Syria helped success of six-day war latest video came to be The story of how this was said to have been availableuploaded ison not to aclear. Syrian It Facebook page about two months ago. Eli Cohen’s widow Nadia said that she was unaware that such a video was in the public domain. However, the video has reignited interestA few years in Israel’s ago, various most famousmemorials and wereeffective put spy.up across the Golan Heights A memorial to Eli Cohen at Hamat Gader which he visited on at places that had associa- October 7, 1962 and reported to the Mossad on the Syrian mili- The former Syrian ‘El Hama’ hotel which was located on a demilita- tary emplacements nearby. This is the beginning of the ‘Eli Co- rized zone on the Israel Syria border. The hotel, built by the British, interests in the exploits hen trail. was at a popular spa resort. After the end of the British mandate the tionof Eli with Cohen Eli Cohen.have encour Today- Syrians took over the area. Eli Cohen was a guest at the hotel. with his Syrian ‘friends’. CONT. FROM PREVIOUS PAGE aged many Israelis to visit some of the locations in the Golan Heights that Eli Cohen visited unknown. Many representations have been made to the Syrian government by intermediar- Although Eli Cohen was executed some two years before the Six Eli Cohen’s body has never been returned to Israel; in fact, the location of his burial in ies for Eli Cohen’s remains to be returned to Israel, but perhaps in the volatile Middle East- Daytime. War, the information he gathered and passed on to Israel was context this will never be done. Eli Cohen’s love of Israel without doubt saved hundreds, if instrumental in the IDF overcoming Syrian defenses in such a short not thousands of lives. 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