Israeli security sources have informed Channel 12 News that reports suggesting Israel has retrieved the remains of spy Eli Cohen from Syria for burial are false.
These rumors have circulated widely on social media in recent hours.
Eli Cohen, an Egyptian-born Israeli, was apprehended in Syria and executed in 1965 after serving as a Mossad agent. With the Assad regime recently falling and Israel carrying out an extraordinary military operation in Syria—featuring air strikes across the country and ground operations near the border—there has been speculation that Israel might attempt to recover Cohen’s remains.
{Matzav.com Israel}