JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel has neither confirmed nor denied reports that the remains of Israeli spy Eli Cohen, executed in Damascus in 1965, have been removed from Syria by a delegation from Russia.

In 1960, Egyptian-born Eli Cohen was recruited by the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency. He was dispatched to Argentina, where he posed as an expatriate Syrian businessman ...

A Mossad operation brought back the executed agent’s timepiece. (JTA) – Half a century after the Israeli spy Eli Cohen was executed in Syria, Israel’s intelligence service said it retrieved ...