The Beirut Spy: Shula Cohen | Al Jazeera World
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- When Shula Cohen was arrested for espionage in 1961, Beirut society was shocked.
How could such an elegant, classy high society woman turn out to be an Israeli spy?
Shulami 'Shula' Cohen was born of Jewish parents in Argentina and grew up in Israel. At 16, she was married off to a wealthy Lebanese Jewish businessman, Josef Kishik, and moved to Beirut.
It's not entirely clear how Cohen, codenamed 'The Pearl' became a spy for the Jewish Agency and then for the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, when it was formed in December 1949.
One theory is she'd always wanted to be involved in the building of Israel. Another is that she was recruited in Jerusalem and her marriage to Kishik was a "front".
Either way, Cohen carved out a prominent place in the higher echelons of Beirut society and hosted salons where she entertained and cultivated politicians, influential businessmen and senior army officers.
She used these parties, her cafes, casinos and her husband's Beirut shop to make contacts who'd enable her to provide intelligence to Israel and build a spy network.
Cohen was part of a huge operation called "Aliya Bet" to bring Jews from Arab countries through Lebanon into Palestine. Arabs were opposed to the settlement of Jews in pre-1948 Palestine so their transit had to be secret. Jewish emigration from Arab countries to Israel remained highly contentious post-1948 and so this smuggling continued for many years.
Cohen's trial began on October 27, 1961 and received huge media attention. But, interestingly, nothing came out during the trial about the many Lebanese and other Arab politicians who had been caught in her clandestine web.
On July 25, 1962 Cohen was sentenced to death. But due to international pressure, including from Israel, her sentence was commuted to 20 years.
Cohen only served six years of her sentence imprisoned in Beirut.
Israel took a large number of Arab prisoners during the second Arab-Israeli war in 1967 - and Cohen, among others, was exchanged for a number of Syrian, Lebanese and Egyptian soldiers in the summer of 1967.
Shula Cohen died in Jerusalem on May 21, 2017, aged 100. Also in 2017, the Lebanese authorities claimed to have made several arrests in connection with the passing of information to Mossad. Shula Cohen has passed away but her legacy lives on.
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Pleasantly surprised to see a mostly objective presentation by Al Jazeera! Good job!!
Same tbh
Al Jazeera always does a great job with their documentaries. I use them a lot for research. They have some great reporters.
@Observer Jr. You can't even speak proper English. They have great documentaries and reporters. Yes, they are a Qatari state-owned media outlet and will occasionally espouse government-approved talking points, however, you can't throw the baby out with the bathwater. They have talented reporters and have great reports on the world. Stop espousing right-wing talking points that you love to regurgitate.
@@iafigueroa91 So, when did the Islam world and the sponsored networks became beacon of truth?
The only reason the world is still surviving is because of the inept Arab world. Once Arab world, becomes self-sufficient and intelligent enough, they will parade all over the world (which already they are doing with money) and massacre how their erstwhile leader Muhammad did.
Islam is the only major active religion where you are condemned to death, if you try to leave Islam. Islam is like a irreversible chemical reaction, it cannot change with times nor it can modify any parts of it's tradition to suit modern secular thinking.
The greatest irony of it all is the current nexus between the two extremist ideologies one that of Islam and the other is left/communist one. This current nexus is beneficial to both to penetrate their ideologies deep into the heartlands of every possible nation on the earth. And, once they eliminate other parties/ideologies in the respective countries, these two groups would annihilate each other as their ideologies are mutually confrontational to each other. Currently, they are in the honeymoon period where each group is tying to make maximum profit of each other by their nexus. That is the reason you don't see the hypocrite leftist groups ever raising their wrath on Islam which is one of the most intolerant and brutal religions ever to come to light. Why Islam is different to other religions is because Islam is NOT flexible, it still believes in the non-sense written centuries back, whereas other religions however crude or primitive they may be have tried to accommodate or change to the modern times. Arab world is a dangerous threat to Israel, and the only way Israel can survive is to be on the offensive.
We are failing to follow the middle path as taught by Buddha, extreme ideology of any kind is going to give pain and suffering to the world. Live in a reasonable way, where critical thinking, inclusivity and tolerance are given value instead of falling trap to my religion or my ideology is the true ideology. Israel also needs to be humane to the cause of Palestine and be reasonable with them, else no one is going to live a satisfactory life.
Trying to gain acceptance.
Documentaries like no other. Best network, Al Jazeera
Al Liezeera .Fabeicating a lot of Fakestinian lies
I adore Ronen Bergman. For me,He is One of Israel's brilliant Journalist.
Ronen is no doubt a brilliant journalist but sometimes I feel his work regardless of his intentions undermine Israel's security.
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Well, it's a Catastrophe when 5 countries attack a newborn country and still manage to lose...
@Leo Walzim The US didn't step in in 48, get your facts right...
@Leo Walzim Weapon came mostly from Europe at that time and it is not as if the Arabs manufactured their own weapon.
They never truly attacked to destroy. Imagine that in 1955 the general of the Arab forces was an English man.
Arab rulers only think about their thrones. They don't care about anything else.
@Leo Walzim Lies. Czechoslovakia supplied weapons to Israel during the war of independence, not US. Besides, Arabs were heavily armed and trained by the British, particularly Jordanians yet they still manage to lose against the tiny state of Israel.
@Sniff Test 🤣
These should have more views
Fantastic documentary 👌
Great documentary,,,,,informative
I have enjoyed comment section more than the documentary😂😂😂😂😂
I never ignore the comments section on any video. Almost always interesting and informative.
Very informative documentary. Thank you!
Not really.
She was an incredible woman...bold and courageous
She got caught incredible too!!!
Love breaks all barriers. Shula fell for Simon. Eternal woman.
Love is most strong feeling in the world which can change anything.
what Shula did and other Lebanese jews that worked for the Mossad ... is very damageable for the Lebanese jews that were in majority NOT zionist because they were already living in their country , Lebanon . I know my whole family was from Wadi abu jmil .
As a lebanese, i wish to see you in lebanon again, the jews were one of the 18 different religious sects in lebanon, it was named: the israeli sect الطائفة الإسرائيلية
Peace and love from mount lebanon!
Brave Woman . Real Hero
Only a mutt would believe that
Whats crazy is that most of those involved in the shula spy story are dead..but the Arab -jew war still continues
Is the war eternal? What will bring peace?
@30:14 'We started spying on her through remote listening devices on the floor, wall, or ceiling, *linked to satellites* .' Really? Linked to satellites? In '61, eh? (She was arrested on 9 Aug 1961, and had been under investigation for two months prior to that date.) Listening devices with dishes transmitting data via communications satellites to a base station. Quite a remarkable achievement, Lebanon. That was just after the US launched its first passive relay satellite, about a year before the US launched its first active-relay communication satellite, and a decade before Canada, which is credited as being third to launch a communications satellite.
How have we not heard of Lebanon's space achievements until now?
Ouch
Sadly, a person doesn’t have to be one any particular social group to give a biased point of view. It’s a common human frailty to be found among members of any social or ethnic group, and all human beings.
My wife may be a spy...or maybe not but she is very sneaky because she only farts when she thinks no one can hear her ripping a big one off. It sounds like a Maori bloke after a double pig hãngi with chilli sauce the next day...WHOOOMMMMPPPP!
Thanks WOW THAT'S AWESOME
Interesting version with many details airbrushed out to maintain the chosen narrative.
She was an incredible woman who saved many lives. She lived to a remarkable age.
What is most interesting is that information gathered by intelligence services in Israel and the activities of the IDF are for defence or protection vs offence and harm.
It is so wonderful to see Arab nations forming mutually beneficial relationships with Israel.
There is far more to be garnered from friendships vs fighting, everyone wins. I can’t wait to see more.
yeah, do you know Eli Cohen? the zionist pig that got hanged in Damascus in 1965.
You live in dream world, making peace with Israelis is making peace with your childs rapist. The Israelis butchered the Palestinians for over 50 years and still do, making peace with Israelis always the same, they get everything and and not only you get nothing, you lose something.
Another Cohen.... that’s so strange.
What's strange about it???
@@meyergaelle8108 Eli cohen another spy from israel
@Ahmed Antimarxist Nice
@@meyergaelle8108 whoosh
Cohen is one of the most common Jewish Surnames.
If you are really interested it means "Priest" pepole called Cohen are believed to be descended from the Cohanim (priests) of the old Temple.
How could such an elegant, classy high society woman turn out to be an Israeli spy? the answer is in the question
because she's jew?
Because when somebody have a European mind to grab other people's land and claim as their own like they did in America.
They are skipping over so much in this documentary... talking about how she was known as agent 'pearl' and all the rest of it. This woman was so brutally tortured after her arrest in Lebanon that -many years later- she would not even refer to some of it. She only agreed to speak about tortures like not having finger or toe nails anymore because they were all ripped off, and being whipped and electrocuted while hanging upside down. She would not speak of the numerous sexual perversions that were visited upon her after her arrest. Don't glamorize female spies...
Like Anne Frank you mean what a stupid statement the mob and the Mafia of New York made Israel with so much cash 😞
That's nothing compared to what zionist caused to Arabs.
If you are a spy you know that you might end like that.
So, you expect to spy, put lives at risk, causing deaths and installing corruption and not being touched if you are caught?
That's some bullshit
that is the part of the game. everybody knows its a game with a horrible end when caught. they r glorifying it cuz a female could be so devastating to a country single headedly and yet she returned home alive and lived there for another 50 years. she surely is a survivor compared to the story of Eli Cohan.
Who told you that? If she would not speak of it, then how do you know? Don't get me wrong I'm sure they did...just asking how you know this. Any good books on it?
this woman chose to be a spy and Betray the country that welcomed her. The downside of being a spy and a treater is that when you get caught , bad things happen to you . It was her choice
The documentary has numerous mistakes. For example Jerusalem was predominantly Jewish when Shula was born there.
its christian land. dont ever forget it.
She was born in Argentina. Funny you made a mistake while talking about mistakes. 😅
its christian lands, fact, everybody comes under our god and messenger...fact, or they would have been put to death...fact. we set up israel to protect our holy lands, the roman empire became christian and anyone one that did,nt join it was put to death...fact,
Nice documentary
When Shula Cohen was arrested for espionage in 1961, Beirut society was shocked...
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All intelligence agencies have their failures. However, can you just imagine how many successes Mossad have had! 💪🏽🙏😇😁😎
they have a lot of failures, but they are the master of the medias and tell whatever they want. Egypt arrested a lot of spies
@@HTProducer many spies in deep in Egypt probably your brother is spy for Israel and you eat beans and watch him every day without knowing
"The lillehammer affair"where Mossad killed a wrong person and then got caught comes to mind.
@@mortef Or, The six day war. That was really, rather good. Plus, beating Palestine.
Yes
She lived to be 100 I guess Shaytan works in mysterous way, huh? 😂😂😂
Good Report
wow.. this "documentary" felt more like an anti-Israel propaganda film, I've enjoyed other historical pieces, but this one is a narrative control tool. "they were surprised by the hijacking of planes that resulted in the death of Netanyahu's brother", strange way to describe what really happened.. the saudis might have a valid point.
Doesn't AlJazeera know how to dub Arabic audio into English if they are making an English documentary?
Sammy Benjamin No because they’re biased against Israel.
It’s the Al Jazeera English Channel you genius .
@Fatuma Sheikh Mohamed Israel fu...😊, not su...
What if you show them how
I do really understand wht it really feels to be stateless those jews ppl r fighting for survival
Try being Palestinian
It's their rightful home.
What a brave woman Rest In Peace
WOW, what a lady with a full life, lots of respect.
RIP.
There’s always a Traitor lurking around. Shameful.
What a brave women! She is an Esther in our generation!
She is Rahab of our generation. Esther was a virtual woman. Rahab helped Joshua to spy over the city of Jericho.
43.00 1967 was the third arab israeli war not the second
being abused by my big brother. There is something fundamentally wrong with 1.4 billion people in the world! And JAM MEDIA RESPONSE> it has to stop!!! !!!
Please remember that any media information that you watch, read or hear has been filtered through from a particular viewpoint. One question to ask would be to find out who owns the source of the information and what is their political view about anything, in this case, Israel. So who owns the Al Jazeera network and what is his/er political views towards Israel? Unfortunately, as I have discovered, a lot of news that we receive has been told from a biased viewpoint. Sadly, I have seen a lot of anti-Israeli, even what I consider to be anti-Semitic rhetoric and information. From the Al Jazeera channel.
The fact is that no news anywhere has no bias in it, because the full story from all viewpoints are never taken into account, and we never hear about them unless we travel to the affected areas or have dealings in the form of personal encounters and experiences with people from those areas or groups ourselves.
Good point
Correctly said....
Well said!
Unfortunately, same thing applies too on CNN and BBC and other western channels.
You think CIA, BBC are neutral? Feeling pity for you.
Why we can't dig out the truth from the bottom? The main question is why and how
do you ever think that details of all these covert operations ever can be found out.. no because all Intel agencies want their operations to be covert ... they do not do these operations to make news headlines or so that some movie producer will make a movie out of it
Only intelligence agency who created a state
Shula Cohen... How courageous!..
What a bunch of lies! When Shula was imprisoned, she had just given birth to her youngest child. How could she practise some karate in this situation? It would be ridiculus if it wasn´t so obviously clear that all this "information" is just rubbish. The Libanese were just angry that this brave woman had managed to trick them for 13-14 years and took there revenge in disgusting and brutal ways. But the Almighty God saved this woman to live out 50 years in the Holy City of Jerusalem in the promised land for being brave and kind to His people.
Love palastine
Mohamed Xoogsade What is that? How does it smell? Is it like pastrami?
Did you ever ask yourself why there was no Palestinian state between 1949-67?
Agent Pearl lived a long full life, a result of her saving many Jewish lives.
Is it terrible someone helped a group of people who were forbidden from leaving the country they were living in and help them to go to a safer country?
Lebanese forbidding Jews to leave Lebanon is the same thing the Nazi's did
same the Inquisition Spanish and Portuguese did ....
As did Libya.
We do not want you, but we will not allow you to be free.
What are you talking about? Look what happened to Palestine. The safe country is long gone once they put their foot there. All just chaos.
"Milad died in 2013 without revealing the details on his relationship and the intel he gathered" because he didn't gather any infos and got played like a grand piano by Shula.
At 30.36 the Lebanese intel. was using satellites in the 1950' s? Oh dear... just another example of Arab reality?
Lmao
He truly fall in love, and got used as a Kompromat.
Bravery was her secret.
Unbelievable story
milad did not disclose any secrets because there was not any just another made up lie by Arab Media
"died". I think he was assassinated tbh.
Nop.
Shula Cohan❤
Daughter of the Most High.
no drugs,no love if you are in intelligence business
30:15 This guy is using way to much hashish to think that the arabs had spy satellites.
@@BigBoss1R
The Russians weren't giving satellites away. Also, you misspelled a word.
CAN YOU FIND THE MISSPELLED WORD?
It is a must. Israel has to survive.
Brave soul, Israel is a light upon the nations!
how she related to eli cohen
Balfour declartion
Mohamed Xoogsade what? Your poor grammar does make my ears bleed
Mohamed Xoogsade historic not grammer dude!!!!
Dauphin River First Nation Canada 🇨🇦
Good God, so many inaccuracies, I don't know where to begin. By the way , the meaning of the name Shulamit is daughter of Jerusalem .
Ads spoil the video. Ps. We will not feed terrorists.
You're feeding israel?
i am being abused at Bevatone House in East Barnet.
All of them are Cohen
Sacha Cohens grandma?
G-D Bless her soul..
Takes one to know one..
She was whoooh
AM ISRAEL 🇮🇱 HAI💙🍷LONG LIVE MOSSAD
your day is coming buddy, look at what happened to the Nazis... Zionism = Modern day Nazism
@@alinaontarion3703 Alina sweetheart I wish everyone well
@@lechiarsanukaev1459 yet you support the biggest terrorist regime in modern history... makes sense lol
@@alinaontarion3703 what I support is our SURVIVAL we been through a lot . This is for 🌹you I wish everyone well
@@lechiarsanukaev1459 your survival? from what exactly 😂last time i checked it was your people who were doing the oppressing and the palestinians being forced out of their land and under occupation. Are you proud your the only apartheid regime in the 21st century?
FELICITACIONES , FALTA EL CONFLICTO CONTRA ESTA MUJER RAPTADA EN LA INFANCIA
All the Arabs Hated the fact that Israel returned to it's statehood in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs Israel was a state That's over 3,000 years ago And before that king David was a king and Israel Ahad was a king in Israel Solomon was the king and Israel Jehu was a king in Israel I can name many more So jews have a right to their state And all the misguided Hate is a waste of time.
Oh, Lebanon.... Oh, Palestine... Oh, Syria... So close to the devil
Love ❤️ Respect ✊ Shula Cohen powerful story honourable life
mossad is proud of you ... AL JAZZ
What a brave woman, my hero. To do what she did in a male dominated world. I believe she is like a modern King David the apple of God's eye & how well God will reward her for her bravery on judgement day. She is surely blessed by God for going way beyond her calling doing things for her people many men couldn't/wouldn't do. God Bless this awesome woman, resting in the arms of Abraham
The things we humans allow ourselves to believe
Helped in occupying Palestinian land and being a pimp is very heroic isn't it.
Ohwow no wonder she lived so long, she built Israel state.
Is she a relative of Eli Cohen ..?
Possibly
Mike Hovington A very long time ago, during biblical times: the name Cohen is only indicative of being a member of the highest level of priesthood, during the times of the Temple. And her husband was the Cohen, her maiden name was something else.
No her surname is cohen.
No, Cohen is a common Jewish Surname
She was an extremely brave women , like her namesake Eli Cohen in Damascus ! Long live the Brave Israeli People and the State of lsrael with its Eternal Capitol Jerusalem !
He wasn't her name sake. There are a million Jews with the Cohen Surname, Eli is just one of the most famous ones.
ew israel
Ew you.
The Amorities (Rebels + Arabs) Are Defeated. Joshua 10:12 from the Old Testament
Vilho James fool
Vilho James, “Old Testament” is an anti-Semitic term. They are the Jewish scriptures, not a pretext to or for Christianity.
No chance for Arabs against Mossad lol
हिन्दी में प्रसारण करो।
Kiintoisa dokumentti..
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See how sickening this world is...…… so much heroines!!!!!
Ne mi e dobre
Well done, except for using the services of Palestinian journalist, Nassar Laham, who comes off as somewhat of a paranoid clown.
nThese journalists behave this way to convince the audience because they often say lies and they know it ....the Jews were expelled from Egypt with absolutely nothing after centuries of presence in the country .
Stfu.
Hater
@@dandana4647 So tell them to go back to egypt and left palestine to palestinian
@@saebdahalan3054 tell the Arabs in Israel to go back to there native country Arab. Tell the Arabs in Egypt to leave Egypt because they are not indigenous to that land.
some how people managing to extravagant a simple idea of self-defence by other nation. mmm get a life! it's just self defence.
So what I learned if the arab countries did not attack Isreal..which they did unless rewriting history There would be a peaceful situation with their Muslim brothers. But where goes the victors of war goes the spolis In this case they got back the country they lost in war thousands of years ago. Unless it doesnt matter who were the original inhabitants
God Bless the soul of Shula Cohen & may she rest in peace🙏🙏🙏💙🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
But Ra'fat Al hajjane was the best forever !
Goes to prove, No one from the sand can be trusted.
go israel
You mean go to isreHELL idiot.
Shula!you are so cool...
Camel-herds and spy satellites!!! hmm sure there's definitely a connection.. you should include an iphone to make it more glamorous.............
The God of Abraham, Issace, and Jacob will always defend His chosen ppl. This woman has my respect. This Arab concocted story of a second lover is nonsense. The same Arabs that tortured and raped her for years in solitary confinement before her release after the six day war in 1948.
Six day war in 1948? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
At 4.10 he says 'outside the borders of Israel'. This is laughable, Israel still in 2018, refuses to declare it final borders. hasbarah fail.
This is an Al Jazeera film, so it's an Al Jazeera fail.
God bless Israel
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Only zionists in the comment, how come?🤭
The story of the Jews, is a story of survival through the centuries and even millennia. A people that were oppressed anyplace they went. This makes the oppressed stronger.
Wao it is interesting that after the damages done, she was released. It was a win all for Israel.
All Wise & Righteous & Children of Jehovah,
"unsubscribe Al-Jazeera"
Lol
sory , this documentary is full of lies.
@39:39 it's very surprising that they still don't look like supermen to you.. hey Mossad, you see what's missing!!? wear that spangly outfit when you thwart their next move!!!
I wouldn't use the word weak. I would say agreeable to helping China as long as Biden's family continues to get paid off for doing favors.
لماذا تم الافراج عن هذه المرأة الجاسوسه..لابد أن تعدم بلا رحمه
UNPARALLED GREAT SACRIFICE TO THE COUNTRY. LONG LIVE SHULA & ELI KOHENS, NO RELATIONSHIP/FAMILY TIES BETWEEN THEM, BOTH SACRIFICED FOR ISRAEL USING INGENIOUS HUMAN WEAKNESES.
LEBANNESE SPY OUTSMARTED MOSSAD SING THE SAME DIRTY TRICK.
"WHAT IS GOOD FOR A GOOSE IS GODD FOR A GANDER ALSO."