Eli Cohen

Podcast: Yossi Melman on Israel’s Most Famous Spy

What we learn from the Eli Cohen files.

Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic and Yossi Melman
May 23 2025 12:01AM

Netflix's "The Spy" Manages to Convey the Ethnic Irony at the Heart of Eli Cohen's Life

In 1960s Israel, Arabic-speaking Jews were invaluable as spies for their new country. In normal life, they were marginalized.

Matti Friedman
Oct. 29 2019 12:01AM