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Q: The Mossad, Israel's Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations, has recently retrieved a wristwatch that belonged to spy Eli Cohen, it was cleared for publication on Thursday. 
  
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 Eli Cohen, Israel's spy in Damascus was caught and hanged by the Syrians in 1965. 
  
 His wristwatch was recovered in a recent special Mossad operation. 
  
 Eli Cohen, right, and his recovered wristwatch (Photo: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO) 
  
 "After Eli Cohen's execution on May 18, 1965, the wristwatch was held by an enemy state. Upon the watch's return to Israel, special research and intelligence operations were carried out which culminated in the unequivocal determination that this was indeed Eli Cohen's watch," the Mossad said. 
  
 During an annual service in Cohen's memory in May, Mossad Director Yossi Cohen presented the wristwatch to the spy's family. 
  
 "There was great excitement, because it is essentially the only item of dad that came back, we have nothing else besides that," said Cohen's daughter Sofi Ben-Dor. 
  
 She said the watch "was not kept in pristine condition, but it's moving to know dad touched it. We haven't touched it yet, it's in a frame at the lobby outside the Mossad director's office." 
  
 The wristwatch is now on display at the Mossad headquarters "as a badge of honor and in memory of the legendary fighter," the agency said in a statement. 
  
 It will be given back to the family on Rosh HaShana. 
  
 Ben-Dror said the grandchildren of the woman who held onto the wristwatch after Cohen's capture wanted to sell it. "They knew all of these years that it belonged to him, and only when their grandmother was old enough, the grandchildren took advantage of the opportunity to make money," she explained. "They approached Israeli officials, because they knew they could get more out of them." 
  
 She said photos and DNA analysis were used to confirm the wristwatch indeed belonged to her father. 
  
 Nadia Cohen, the Israeli spy's widow 
  
 Nadia Cohen, the Israeli spy's widow, told Army Radio that "a few months ago, the Mossad shared with us that they had tracked down the watch, which was on sale. We don't know where, in what place, in what country. And of course the Mossad bought it and carried out all of the tests to make sure it was the right watch." 
  
 "I decided the watch would remain in the Mossad. I felt like it was part of his body, that some of his skin and some of his blood was in that watch," she added. 
  
 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the Mossad for "the determined and courageous operation, the sole objective of which was to return to Israel a memento from a great fighter who greatly contributed to the security of the state." 
  
 Mossad Director Yossi Cohen added that "We remember Eli Cohen and do not forget. His heritage—of dedication, determination, courage and love of the homeland—is our heritage. We remember and have maintained a close connection over the years with his family, Nadia and the children." 
  
 "This year, at the conclusion of an operational effort, we succeeded in locating and bringing to Israel the wristwatch that Eli Cohen wore in Syria until the day he was captured. The watch was part of Eli Cohen's operational image and part of his fabricated Arab identity," the Mossad chief added. 
  
 Our man in Damascus 
  
 Eli Cohen was born in 1924 in Egypt and was a member of the Zionist youth group in Alexandria from a young age. He started engineering studies at the university in Alexandria, but had to quit due to the rise in hatred towards Jews in Egypt following the 1948 War of Independence. 
  
 In the early 1950s, Cohen was part of a spy network of young Egyptian Jews, which was operated by Israeli intelligence. After the network was exposed in 1954 by Egypt's intelligence agencies—in what was later known as the Lavon Affair—he was questioned and eventually released. 
  
 Eli Cohen, left, during his trial in Damascus (Photo: AFP) 
  
 Cohen made aliyah to Israel in 1957. Shortly after that, he began talks with the IDF's Intelligence Directorate, but those talks did not bear fruit. In 1960, Cohen was recruited by Israeli intelligence services. Later he was sent to Argentina to establish a fictitious identity of a Arab businessman, a former Syrian, named Kamal Amin Ta'abet. 
  
 In 1961, Cohen entered Syria and began his undercover activity. Over time, he moved up the social and political ranks and formed close ties with the top echelons in the Syrian leadership. At the height of his activity, Cohen was nominated for the role of Syria's deputy defense minister. 
  
 Eli Cohen executed in Damascus 
  
 Taking advantage of his extensive connections, Cohen transferred high-value intelligence to Israel about the Syrian army's deployment in the Golan Heights. 
  
 He also reported on different military and political moves, before being caught in 1965 and executed. ||||| Image copyright Amos Ben Gershom, Israeli Government Press Office Image caption The watch was reportedly worn by Cohen until the day he was captured 
  
 A watch belonging to one of Israel's most famed spies who was caught and hanged in Syria has been recovered by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency. 
  
 It was worn by Eli Cohen, an Egyptian-born Jew recruited by Mossad in the early 1960s, who infiltrated the highest echelons of the Syrian regime. 
  
 He provided Israel with Syrian state secrets, before he was found out and publicly hanged in Damascus in 1965. 
  
 Syria has refused to reveal the whereabouts of his remains. 
  
 The recovery of Cohen's watch was announced by the Israeli prime minister's office. 
  
 Details of when or how Israel got hold of the watch were not disclosed, other than it was returned "in a special Mossad operation". 
  
 Mossad director Yossi Cohen said the watch was worn by Eli Cohen "until the day he was captured. 
  
 "The watch was part of Eli Cohen's operational image and part of his fabricated Arab identity." 
  
 Highest echelons 
  
 Masquerading as Kamal Amin Taabet, a fictitious Syrian businessman, Eli Cohen made multiple trips to Syria from 1962. He befriended influential political, business and military figures and become increasingly trusted. 
  
 The mystique of his story is such that it is oft-reported that he was even considered for the position of Syrian deputy defence minister, though this has not been backed up by evidence. 
  
 Image copyright Israel Government Press Office Image caption Syria buried Cohen in an unknown location 
  
 Cohen was able to obtain secret information, which he passed back to Israel. Details he gave of Syrian troops on the Golan Heights are said to have played an important part in helping Israel defeat Syria in the 1967 Middle East war. 
  
 He was unmasked by Syrian security officials in 1964, tortured and sentenced to death after a military trial. Cohen was hanged in a public square in Damascus the following year. 
  
 Israel has repeatedly asked for the repatriation of his remains but Syria has refused. 
  
 Commenting on the recovery of the watch, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement: "I commend the fighters of the Mossad for the determined and courageous operation, the sole objective of which was to return to Israel a memento from a great fighter who greatly contributed to the security of the state." 
  
 The watch was given to Cohen's widow, Nadia, in a private ceremony in May. 
  
 "The moment that they informed me [of the watch's recovery] my mouth went dry and I got the chills," she told Israeli TV. 
  
 "At that moment I felt that I could feel his hand, I felt that part of him was with us." ||||| The Mossad did discover that the body had been removed from the Jewish cemetery in Damascus where it was initially buried, and transferred once or several times to other places, apparently in an effort to keep Israel off track. Some Israeli intelligence officials have concluded that even Syrian intelligence no longer knows where the Israeli spy is buried. 
  
 Two years ago, the current head of the Mossad, Yossi Cohen, ordered a renewed effort. 
  
 Trying to reach people who took part in the arrest, investigation, trial and execution, the Mossad learned that one person involved in the investigation had kept the watch, for some reason without the strap, and passed it on to someone close to him. 
  
 For the past 18 months, the Mossad has been conducting a complex operation in the heart of Damascus to obtain the watch from this man. The official did not explain how Mossad agents acquired the watch. 
  
 When the watch arrived in Israel, the Mossad carried out another operation to verify that this was indeed Mr. Cohen’s watch. 
  
 Mr. Cohen occasionally traveled to Europe, and from there to Israel to meet with his operators. He used to come back from these visits, like a wealthy business executive, with luxury goods. From one visit to Europe, he returned with an expensive Eterna-Matic Centenaire 61 watch. The Mossad has found documents showing the watch was purchased in Switzerland. 
  
 Forensics experts, photo experts who examined pictures of Mr. Cohen with his watch, and other experts were recruited. Swiss archives and records were also examined. About three months ago, the experts concluded that this was the famous spy’s timepiece. 
  
 Mr. Cohen’s loss was a deep wound for the Mossad. 
  
 “We remember Eli Cohen and we do not forget his legacy, a legacy of devotion, determination, courage and love of the homeland is our heritage,” Mr. Cohen, the Mossad chief, said Thursday in a statement. |||||
A: 
A "special Mossad operation" has turned up what Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu calls "a memento from a great fighter": the wristwatch worn by spy Eli Cohen, hanged in Damascus in 1965 after years of infiltrating Syria's upper political, military, and business echelons and spilling secrets to Israel, reports the BBC. The announcement of the watch's recovery by the Israeli intelligence agency came out of Netanyahu's office, though details were scarce on how and when it came back into Israel's possession. Cohen, who was born in Egypt and moved to Israel in his late 20s, is said to have worn the watch "until the day he was captured," says Mossad chief Yossi Cohen. Eli Cohen's daughter tells Ynet a woman who came into possession of the watch after Cohen was captured was exploited by her own grandchildren, who took advantage of her age to try to sell the watch. "They approached Israeli officials, because they knew they could get more out of them," Cohen's daughter says, adding that pictures and DNA testing confirmed the watch was her father's. The Mossad presented the watch to Cohen's family at a ceremony in May, though it remains temporarily in Mossad custody, per his widow's request; it will be returned to the family in September for the Jewish new year, the Forward reports. "The moment that they informed me [of the watch's recovery], my mouth went dry and I got the chills," wife Nadia Cohen told Israeli TV. "At that moment I felt that I could feel his hand, I felt that part of him was with us." Israel has long lobbied Syria, which discovered Cohen's spying activity in 1964, to send Cohen's remains back to Israel, but Syria has denied that request. The New York Times has more on Cohen's life as a spy and on the efforts to get his watch back.