Eli Cohen’s daughter tells Tel Aviv protest that gov’t acting against ‘Jewish democratic Israel’ her father sacrificed for

By Noam Lehmann 21 December 2024, 9:19 pm

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Sophie Ben-Dor, daughter of Eli Cohen — the Israeli spy executed in Damascus in 1965 — addresses an anti-government protest in Tel Aviv, saying her father had sacrificed himself for a “Jewish democratic Israel” which the government is acting against.

She also accuses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of failing to listen to her family’s requests to bring her father’s body home.

“I assume that if Dad’s bones are brought back and buried in the Land of Israel, the prime minister will be the first to revel in the achievement,” she says.

She refers to the recent downfall of Syria’s Assad regime as a “late present” for her late father, whose 100th birthday came two days before rebels took Damascus.