![]() ![]() He wrote a history of the Arab Section in 2001 and a few years earlier provided oral testimony to the Yigal Allon Center, named after a founder of the pre-state Palmach strike force of which the Arab-speaking spies were officially a part. Also key is Damascus-born Gamliel Cohen, the one who finished high school. His conversations with the author form the backbone of the book. Aleppo-born Isaac Shoshan was in his late 80s and 90s when Friedman interviewed him, the only one of the four still alive. ![]() But it’s the Syrian Jews we get closest to. They were between 20 and 25 years old in January 1948 three happened to be named Cohen, including Havakuk from Yemen and Yakuba from Jerusalem. ![]() Recruited almost immediately to spy for Israel, they are sent back to Lebanon and elsewhere to pose as Arabs (which they actually are) and collect intelligence. Matti Friedman tells the story of four of Israels first intelligence agents in 1948 Jews from Arab countries who were sent back into the Arab world as. Spies of No Country is about a pre-independence Zionist intelligence unit, the 'Arab Section,' that operated inside the territory of the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon towards the end of the British Mandate for Palestine. Four Arab Jews emigrate to Israel in 1948, at the birth of the new nation.
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