JERUSALEM POST
Israel’s legendary spy Sylvia Raphael returns to the spotlight
by David E. Kaplan
April 11, 2016

…Raphael took over from Israeli spy Eli Cohen following his public hanging in Damascus in May 1965, defying the Syrian assumption that Israel would never replace him with a woman. In 1967 she watched from a hotel balcony in Egypt as Israeli mirages flew over on a bombing mission. As an intimate friend of the Jordanian royal family, Raphael used to babysit the current monarch of Jordan, King Abdullah II. Only a few years earlier she had joined the stream of young Sixties adventurers volunteering on kibbutzim, attracted by the alluring amalgam of ideology and fun on Israel’s agricultural cooperatives. She found herself on Kibbutz Gan Shmuel, near Hadera. If her good looks were attracting attention, there were others interested as well. The Mossad spotted and recruited her. READ MORE

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