Ibrahim Shaheen, and Inshirah Moussa were an Egyptian couple who worked for the Israeli intelligence service Mossad from 1967 until their arrest in 1974.[1][2] Shaheen was executed in Egypt in 1977, while his wife and 3 children fled to Israel and converted to Judaism.[3] In Israel Inshirah changed her name to Dina Ben David. She died in 2021 in Tel Aviv, where her funeral ceremonies were held according to the Jewish religion. Their case was widely publicized in the Israeli media in the end of the 1980s.[4]

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References

  1. ^ Black, Ian; Morris, Benny (1992). Israel's secret wars: a history of Israel's intelligence services. Grove Press. p. 294. ISBN 978-0-8021-3286-4.
  2. ^ "Deaths ordered in Spy Case". The Press-Courier. 25 November 1974. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
  3. ^ "Family of hanged Israeli spy speaks up". New Straits Times. 28 November 1989. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
  4. ^ Bushinsky, Jay (30 November 1989). "Israeli editors stumble on their checkbooks". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 1 October 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2012.


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