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Ilan Grapel

Dan Brotman, left, and Ilan Grapel, in Toronto, September 2025. (Courtesy)
October 8, 2025, 8:12 am
Band of brothers: Israeli-Americans held as spies in Egypt and Lebanon forge unique bond
Dan Brotman, recently released from Lebanese custody, connects with Ilan Grapel, who was accused by Egypt of espionage in 2011, to create a unique support group of two
By Luke Tress
Egyptian security forces clear a sit-in by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in the eastern Nasr City district of Cairo, Egypt, on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)
February 2, 2014, 8:32 pm
Egypt to prosecute ’empty chair’ Mossad agents
Five alleged officers in Israel’s spy agency and three Egyptians to stand trial in absentia for espionage
By ToI Staff
Watchtower of the Egyptian army at the border with Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 19, 2013 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
June 26, 2013, 7:51 pm
Egypt prosecutor charges 9 with spying for Israel
Three locals, six Israelis referred to criminal court for allegedly passing on information harmful to Egypt’s national security
By ToI Staff and AP
File: Ouda Tarabin's Israeli ID card.
April 24, 2013, 8:19 am
Israeli imprisoned in Egypt launches hunger strike
Ouda Tarabin, incarcerated in 2000 on charges of espionage, says authorities failing him
By Stuart Winer
Andre Pshenichnikov (photo credit: Ariel Schalit/AP)
December 31, 2012, 5:14 pm
Egypt says pro-Palestinian Israeli arrested after photographing security sites
Andre Pshenichnikov’s girlfriend tells The Times of Israel he was first detained on the Israeli side of the border, freed, and then arrested when he crossed into Egypt; now the family can’t reach him
By Ilan Ben Zion
Illustrative photo of a prison. (photo credit: CC BY seantoyer, Flickr)
December 31, 2012, 4:19 pm
Israeli detained in Egypt for four days
Reason for Andre Pshenichnikov’s arrest unclear; Israeli of same name said this summer that he wanted ‘to be part of the Palestinian resistance’
By Ilan Ben Zion
Netanyahu walks a frayed tightrope. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 24, 2012, 9:55 am
PM: We’ll work with an Islamist president of Egypt so long as peace treaty is respected
A confident Netanyahu lauds coalition achievements, rejects talk of early elections in Memorial Day radio interview
By Gabe Fisher
The border fence between Israel and Egypt with clothing left during illegal crossings (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
April 22, 2012, 11:20 am
Israeli held in Egypt reportedly to be released this week
Ouda Tarabin, a Bedouin Israeli, has been imprisoned on espionage charges since 2000
By Hillary Zaken
Ilan Grapel (center), released from incarceration in Egypt in 2011, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)
March 28, 2012, 3:58 pm
Israeli delegation in Egypt to seek Bedouin prisoner’s release
Ouda Tarabin has been jailed on espionage charges since 2000
By Philip Podolsky
February 24, 2012, 2:21 pm
Israeli on trial in absentia in new Egyptian spy case, Cairo daily claims
Al-Ahram names alleged agent as Ophir Harari, says Israel has antenna to eavesdrop on officials’ mobile phones
By Elhanan Miller
Ilan Grapel at a press conference in Jerusalem following his release in October (photo credit: Flash90)
February 20, 2012, 12:05 am
Ilan Grapel to Times of Israel: Egypt’s new regime is no different from Mubarak’s
Israeli-American, speaking a year after president’s downfall, plans to write a book about his five-month ‘spy’ ordeal in an Egyptian jail
By Elhanan Miller
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