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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Eli Cohen

1924 - 1965

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Eliyahu Ben-Shaul Cohen (Hebrew: אֱלִיָּהוּ בֵּן שָׁאוּל כֹּהֵן‎, Arabic: إيلياهو بن شاؤول كوهين‎; 6 December 1924 – 18 May 1965) was an Israeli spy. He is best known for his espionage work in Syria between 1961 and 1965, where he developed close relationships with the Syrian political and military hierarchy.Though he was initially successful, his activity became increasingly risky and he expressed a sense of impending danger to Mossad in 1964. A year later, Cohen's true allegiance was uncovered by Syrian intelligence and he was convicted by the Syrian government under pre-war martial law. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eli Cohen has received more than 6,973,622 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Eli Cohen is the 111th most popular military personnel (up from 122nd in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 69th in 2019) and the most popular Egyptian Military Personnel.

Eli Cohen was a spy for Israel who was caught and executed in Syria. He is most famous for his work as a spy.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Eli Cohen ranks 111 out of 1,468Before him are Nestor Makhno, Gaius Julius Caesar, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, Zhang Fei, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, and Alexander Selkirk. After him are Abu Muslim, Cimon, Semyon Timoshenko, Erich von Falkenhayn, Narses, and Theodor Eicke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Eli Cohen ranks 9Before him are George H. W. Bush, Charles Aznavour, Marcello Mastroianni, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Kim Dae-jung, and Robert Mugabe. After him are Truman Capote, Sarah Vaughan, Jacques Le Goff, Jean-François Lyotard, Benny Hill, and Black Dahlia. Among people deceased in 1965, Eli Cohen ranks 9Before him are Le Corbusier, Albert Schweitzer, Syngman Rhee, Farouk of Egypt, Martin Buber, and Stan Laurel. After him are W. Somerset Maugham, Louise Mountbatten, Edward Victor Appleton, Maxime Weygand, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Eli Cohen ranks 60 out of 582Before him are Cleopatra I Syra (-204), Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator (-62), Tiye (-1398), Sneferu (-2700), Amenhotep II (-1401), and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876). After him are Ptolemy VI Philometor (-184), Cleopatra Selene II (-40), Saint Apollonia (110), Meritaten (-1400), Muhammad Abduh (1849), and Sextus Empiricus (160).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Egypt

Among military personnels born in Egypt, Eli Cohen ranks 1After him are Ashraf Marwan (1944), Jawhar (911), and Saad el-Shazly (1922).