Syrian Web Company Helps Israel's Largest Web Site.JERUSALEM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 1998--While the Israeli and Syrian governments are not officially speaking, a Syrian Web company helped Virtual Jerusalem complete its newest web site by supplying authentic Syrian music. The internet site, (http://www.elicohen.com) launched today during a press conference in Jerusalem, immortalizes Israeli spy Eli Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. and tells his story with the assistance of his brother Maurice. The 90-page site cracks open the life of hero Eli Cohen, who was hanged in Damascus in 1965 after penetrating the Syrian High Command. The site also reveals the previously unknown role of Maurice Cohen Maurice Cohen (1927-2006) was a cryptographer for the Mossad. His older brother was the celebrated Israeli spy Eli Cohen. He discovered his brother's identity through his decryption work. who unwittingly acted as the Mossad's decoding de·code tr.v. de·cod·ed, de·cod·ing, de·codes 1. To convert from code into plain text. 2. To convert from a scrambled electronic signal into an interpretable one. 3. agent on this mission. Despite the highly sensitive Adj. 1. highly sensitive - readily affected by various agents; "a highly sensitive explosive is easily exploded by a shock"; "a sensitive colloid is readily coagulated" material dealing with Mossad operations in Syria and the tense relations between the two countries, the Syrian Internet company unofficially cooperated with the Israeli creators of the site. They provided authentic Syrian music for the site's homepage - attesting to the potential power of the Internet as a new tool for peace. Maurice Cohen recruited Virtual Jerusalem, (www.virtualjerusalem.com) the largest Jewish/Israeli site on the web, to re-open this chapter of history. In an effort to bring the world's attention to his brother's story and closure to Eli Cohen's ultimate fate, he is petitioning President Assad of Syria to release his late brother's remains. Only then can he be laid to rest in Israel where the family can finally say Kaddish, the Jewish mourning MOURNING. This word has several significations. 1. It is the apparel worn at funerals, and for a time afterwards, in order to manifest grief for the death of some one, and to honor his memory. 2. The expenses paid for such apparel. 2. prayer for the dead. Among the parties taking up the cause is New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of based businessman, David Zaken, who is interested in raising the profile of this forgotten Sephardic hero. Reacting to recent political comments by Israeli Member of Knesset Uri Orr, highlighting the divisions between the Jews Jews [from Judah], traditionally, descendants of Judah, the fourth son of Jacob, whose tribe, with that of his half brother Benjamin, made up the kingdom of Judah; historically, members of the worldwide community of adherents to Judaism. from different cultural backgrounds, David Zaken says he hopes "to raise Israeli consciousness of the important contributions made by Jews from Islamic countries." The website, www.elicohen.com contains new and extensive information about Eli's mission to Syria, previously unseen documents and photographs, a chance to win plane tickets to a mystery location as well as an Interactive Spy experience - the first of its kind on the Web.
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