You could write an encyclopedia about stories of the acts of courage by Israeli spies and not touch the surface. We'll never know about the heroid Israeli spies who have so far prevented Iran from developing a nuclear arsenal aimed at the west. Here are only a few stories of Israeli spies. These heroes and heroines accomplished great things and saved many lives but most of these stories end in tragedy. These stories probably are not suitable for children younger than 12 years old.
The following story of Hannah Szenes (Sennesh) was taken from The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. Hannah Szenes was born in Budapest on July 17, 1921, to a wealthy Hungarian Jewish family Hannah was exposed to antisemitism during her high school years, propelling her to learn more about her Jewish origins. It was at that time that she joined a Zionist youth movement and learned Hebrew in preparation for immigration to Palestine. In 1939, after finishing her high school studies, Szenes came to Palestine. She joined an elite Jewish fighting group called the Palmach which defended Jews from Arab attacks. She took a course in parachuting and jumped out of a plane into Yugoslavia with several other Jewish volunteers in order to aid the anti-Nazi forces and enter Hungary from there. The Nazis invaded Hungary and captured her within hours of her stepping onto Hungarian soil. They tried to force her to give away the wireless codes of the allies but she refused to give them the information they wanted. In November 1944 Hannah Szenes came up before a tribunal and warned the judges that as the end of the war was nearing, that their own fate would soon hang in the balance. Convicted as a spy, Szenes was sentenced to death. On the morning of November 7th she was presented with two options: to beg for a pardon, or to face death by a firing squad. Refusing to beg clemency from her captors, whom she did not consider legally permitted to try her case, Szenes penned short notes to her mother and her comrades and went to her death at age twenty-three in a snow-covered Budapest courtyard, refusing a blindfold in order to face her murderers in the moments before her death.
Hannah Szenes wrote a poem called "Blessed is the Match". My brother used Suno AI software to put it to music. There was a fire that burned in her heart for Israel and justice and although she didn't write the poem about herself it describes her.
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The following is also from the Shalvi/Hyman encyclopedia of Jewish
women. Sarah Aaronsohn was born to a prominent family in the Zichron Ya’akov moshav. She taught herself six languages. During her extensive travels in the region, including in Turkey, she witnessed the Armenian genocide by Ottoman forces. This prompted her to help the British eject the Ottomans from Palestine by joining the Nili spy ring, where she oversaw operations and communications with British forces. Though suspected by the Ottomans, Aaronsohn refused to flee Palestine and was captured. The Ottomans could not get her to reveal information and she died while being their prisoner. |
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Eli Cohen became Israel's greatest spy. He put himself in great danger to help Israel. From 1948 until 1967, Syria firing mortar shells from the Syrian occupied Golan Heights into the Jewish communities of the Upper Galilee below. For 19 years, Jewish settlements in the north were under constant threat of Syrian guns. The Golan provides 30% of Israel’s water sources. The three major tributaries of the upper Jordan River – the Dan, the Baniyas, and the Hatzbani – all originate in the Golan. The melting winter snows produce a huge run-off of water which makes the Golan a beautifully verdant area in the late winter and spring and irrigates the Hula and Jordan Valleys below. Its waters flow into the Sea of Galilee (the Kinneret) and south to the Dead Sea. Syria planned to divert that water. Eli Cohen's spying gave the Israeli military the information it needed to protect its water supply. When the Golan was captured in 1967, at the end of the Six-Day War, much of the credit was due to Eli Cohen, Israel’s greatest spy. Netflix made a documentary about him called the Impossible Spy. In it they depicts Eli sacrificing normal precautions to warn Israel about an attack against an Israeli kibbutz on the night of January 24, 1965. His last transmission was pinpointed by the Syrians with the aid of the Russians. The Syrians then conducted a pre-dawn raid on his home and caught him. |
You can see the trailer of a movie about him below.
You can watch the entire movie below. This movie probably is not suitable for anyone younger than 15 years old.
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You can watch a full length movie about it by clicking here. I have abbreviated the movie to 10 minutes so you can watch it below.
Many of the heroic acts of Israeli soldiers we will never hear about because they were done as part of secret missions or for other reasons. As I write this the greatest threat Israel faces and for that matter the western world faces if the development of nuclear missiles by Iran. Heroic Israeli intelligence agents have sabotaged their nuclear program, and killed key scientists involved and so slowed it down. However they can't stop it alone. The Russians and the Chinese are helping the Iranians. The only chance of it being stopped is if America's leadership and America's military starts acting with the courage the Israelis have. Unfortunately the Biden administration is appeasing the Iranians. They appear to think that if the United States just pressures Israel enough into making dangerous concessions to the Palestinian Arabs, Iran won't hate the United States enough to start a nuclear war.
There are Iranians who are pro-Western but they are oppressed by radical Iranian Muslims who call Israel the little Satan and America the great Satan. Islam teaches that if you die in holy war you go to heaven. You don't want enemies who believe that, especially enemies on the verge of mass producing nuclear weapons. The following is a 30 second video of an Iranian rally against the United States.
Do you think that appeasing these people will stop them from using their nuclear weapons against Israel and the United States
once they have them? Thankfully Israeli spies have so far succeeded in
preventing Iran from building a nuclear arsenal.
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Israel is greatly outnumbered by it's Arab enemies but because of the heroism of Israeli soldiers Israel is still here. The next lesson tells the story of a battle in which the Israeli soldiers had to fight against overwhelming odds.
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