Amina Al-Mufti, the most famous Arab spy for the Mossad

Amina Al-Mufti was the last member of her family and grew up spoiled (social networking sites)

Amina Al-Mufti is a Jordanian of Circassian origin. She changed her country, name, and religion (Islam) to Judaism in 1967. After the death of her husband, a pilot in the Israeli Air Force, she became the most famous Arab spy in the history of Israeli Foreign Intelligence (Mossad). Her information prevented the implementation of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah). ) She carried out dozens of operations against the Israeli occupation until she was described as “the pearl of Israeli intelligence.” She was arrested in 1975 and imprisoned for 5 years. She was exchanged with two Palestinian prisoners on February 13, 1980. She died in 2008 and was buried in Jordan.

Birth and upbringing

Amina Daoud Muhammad Al-Mufti was born at the beginning of January 1939 in the suburbs of the Jordanian capital, Amman, to a wealthy Muslim family of Circassian origins that moved decades ago to settle in Jordan, and members of which held high positions.

Her father was a wealthy jewelry merchant, her mother was educated and spoke 4 languages, her uncle was a general in the royal court, and she was the last member of the family, so she grew up pampered and grew up in prosperity and prosperity.

Study and training

She studied in the most prestigious schools in the Jordanian capital, Amman, and was distinguished by her intelligence. She was fed up with her family’s conservative customs and traditions and their mockery of her during her adolescence, when she became attached to a young man of Palestinian origin named Bassam from a humble family.

She was shocked by Bassam's decision to break off relations with her because he was upset by her selfishness, arrogance, and volatile nature, which negatively affected her academic level, and she did not obtain high school with a good grade.

Amina Al-Mufti continued her university studies in Austria (social networking sites)

With her desire, her family decided to send her to Austria to pursue her university studies in psychology in 1957, and she found there an opportunity to “liberate” from the family’s traditions and conservatism and “independence” from them.

In her new life in the West, she met girls from different countries who, motivated by her wildness and rebellion, took her to the world of pornography and perversion, escaping all moral restrictions.

In this world, Amina Al-Mufti continued to fluctuate until she obtained a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1961 from the University of Vienna.

She returned to Jordan, but soon decided to return to Vienna after learning that Bassam had married a beautiful girl of the same social level as his family.

She justified her travel by completing her postgraduate studies to obtain a doctorate in the same specialty, then she returned again to her country in September 1966, and her family welcomed her with great celebration after she obtained her doctorate.

Track

During her stay in Vienna in the second period, she lived like Western girls lived, stripped of all her values, traditions of her country, and the teachings of the Islamic religion, and chose to work in a small children’s play workshop in parallel with her studies, even though her father was sending her enough money.

In this work, another transformation occurred in Amina’s life after she met a Jewish girl named Sarah Berad. She became her colleague at work, her roommate, and other things, as they became involved together in what was known as the “hippie movement” - a movement that arose at the beginning of the 1960s at the university. She rejects the customs and traditions prevailing in society and calls for sexual freedom, etc., taking them with her and introducing her to her family.

She met Sarah's older brother, Moshe, a military pilot with the rank of captain, and entered into a romantic relationship with him. More than one story says that Moshe helped her obtain a fake doctorate in psychology, and then she returned to her country in September 1966.

After her family celebrated her, they asked her to agree to marry her cousin, but she did not say no, but she asked them for a period of time until she finished the procedures for opening her private hospital in Amman, but tension between her and the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health made her complain about him to the Minister of Health, a complaint that opened the door to hell for her, as The minister ordered attention to be paid to her and an urgent investigation was opened regarding her. In the course of the investigation, the Legal Committee questioned the attestations of her academic degree, and asked her for further attestations from the university in Vienna.

In order to avoid exposure of the forgery of her doctorate certificate and causing a scandal for her family, she flew for the third time to Vienna in a moment of distress and setback in 1967. She did not care about all of that and returned to Moshe, who offered her marriage on the condition that she abandon her religion, Islam, and embrace Judaism. She agreed without hesitation, and the marriage was officially completed that year in Shemodt Synagogue in Vienna and changed its name to Ani Moshe Berad.

She settled with her husband in Vienna until, in the summer of 1972, she read an advertisement in a newspaper in which Israel was offering attractive salaries and privileges to European Jews to volunteer and join the Israeli army.

She convinced her husband to join the occupation army after she feared that her family would persecute her, threatening to kill her. So they traveled together in November 1972 to Israel, where they were warmly received.

Security authorities summoned her a few days later and interrogated her about her upbringing in Jordan, her family, how she met her husband, her view of Israel, and her feelings toward Jordan and Palestine.

Because she expressed her hatred and hatred for the Arabs and her lack of recognition of the Palestinian issue, she was welcomed and given a job, and Moshe obtained the rank of pilot major in the Israeli Air Force and underwent aerial reconnaissance training.

She was not happy with this transition and “success.” She soon lost her husband after Syrian artillery shot down his Skyhawk plane on his first reconnaissance flight at the end of January 1973. He was declared missing after the plane exploded in the air, while Syria did not announce About his family, as is usual in such cases.

The news hit her like a thunderbolt and she went crazy, because not only did she lose her husband, but she was now alone as a fugitive, without a family or family, among people whose culture and language she did not know.

After absorbing the shock, she doubted the Syrian statement and said that Moshe was still alive. She asked permission to travel to Beirut and Damascus to find out news about him. He gave her permission and traveled from Vienna to Beirut on her Jordanian passport. She made multiple trips between Beirut and Damascus and did not achieve anything significant, so she was convinced that her husband had been killed.

Revenge hands her over to Mossad

She returned to Vienna and completed the inheritance procedures with her husband's family. She received half a million dollars, an apartment in Vienna, and guarantees to protect her security. The Mossad found in Amina the characteristics of an agent and spy required to work among the Palestinians: a beautiful woman who holds the status of a doctor, knows their language, culture, and environment, and hates them.

She was easily recruited, and underwent training on her job requirements, including reporting news, photographing, transmitting, encrypting, evading surveillance, and so on.

On October 3, 1973, Amina traveled to Vienna, where she received from the Mossad agent a Jordanian passport, work tools (an advanced radio device in the form of a radium), and a travel ticket to Beirut, after setting her mission to collect news of the leaders of Palestinian organizations and their men and all the details about them, most notably them. Hassan Salama, who is in charge of guarding Fatah leader Yasser Arafat and the movement’s head of security and intelligence.

In Beirut, she met two people who facilitated her access to very important information in exchange for giving her her body: communications employee Manuel Assaf, who gave her the addresses and phone numbers of Palestinian leaders, and Manuel’s boss, Maroun Hayek, who gave her the secret phone numbers of Palestinian organizations and front leaders, and so on.

Maroun was her basket of news and her key to achieving what she wanted, so she added more money to him as well, until she declared to him that she was a spy and a Mossad agent and recruited him with her after she threatened him with scandalous photos of them and audio recordings of him giving her the phone numbers of men and leaders of Palestinian organizations.

Maroun enabled her to listen to calls between Palestinian leaders and front leaders, and to know the dates and locations of guerrilla operations within the occupied territories, which constituted a great service to Israel that prevented dozens of operations from taking place.

A number of Palestinian leaders were pursued, arrested, and assassinated, and the Israeli occupation army was even directed to bomb a number of civilian and military sites.

She infiltrated among the Palestinian factions and got to know the leaders under the guise of a volunteer doctor in Palestinian shelters, especially in the south. She arrived at Arafat’s office and showed him her enthusiasm for volunteering and her support for the organization’s struggle and battle. He granted her a permit to enter all Palestinian sites, whether military or camps.

Hassan Salama...the fatal goal

Reaching Hassan Salama, Arafat’s bodyguard, who is in charge of Fatah’s security and intelligence, and the internal guard forces, and knowing his picture and the names of Palestinian intelligence leaders and agents in Europe were among its biggest goals.

After many attempts, she was able to reach him through her recruits and methods, but she asked him a fatal question that revealed her. She asked him about his children, and he became suspicious of her, as no one knew that he was married and had children.

He asked his men in Amman to search for information about Dr. Amina Al-Mufti, and they told him that she was actually a Jordanian doctor who studied in Austria and left her country after a dispute with her family, so his doubts were dispelled and he trusted her.

Ali Hassan Salama (right) demanded the execution of the Mufti, but Yasser Arafat (left) refused to do so (social networking sites)

But a secret report from Germany told him that a young Palestinian man in Frankfurt told their sources that a Palestinian in Vienna told him that he had an Austrian-Jewish friend who died as a result of drugs. She had a brother who married an Arab Muslim girl who studied medicine and fled with him to Israel, and that she moved to Lebanon after her husband’s plane crashed and he was lost. .

Salama opened another investigation, and all the volunteer Arab female doctors in Palestine and Lebanon were detained, including 4 of them, Amina, and they were placed under surveillance for a period. Amina then contacted Tel Aviv, and they asked her to get rid of her device and run away, but the Palestinian intelligence services quickly arrested her in 1975 and did not find anything in her apartment. He condemns her, as she hid everything.

Amina remained detained while investigations into her and confirmation of her truth continued. Salama’s services were able to reach her apartment in Vienna and found her diaries, which revealed a lot about her life, especially her marriage to a Jew, her travel with him to Israel, and her work for the Mossad.

Salama chose trickery and deception in interrogating her. They told her that her husband Moshe was a prisoner of the Syrians and had been released a few days ago as part of an exchange. They leaked to her a newspaper (of which a single copy was printed for the purpose of misleading her) that included the news of Moshe’s release on its front page among his colleagues before he left captivity with him. Red Cross. The spy was shocked by the news, but she faced all questions with denial, so violence was resorted to.

The Lebanese authorities intervened and demanded that she be handed over for investigation, but the intervention of Palestinian leader Abu Iyad with the Lebanese Minister of Interior returned Amina to Palestinian intelligence for investigation.

Another story says that the Palestinians refused to respond to the request of the Lebanese authorities, and they were able to make Amina confess to who recruited her into the Mossad and the information she sent and her network in Beirut.

Salama demanded her execution to intimidate Israeli agents, but Yasser Arafat refused and chose to exchange her for Palestinian prisoners.

While she was in prison, she tried to influence her guard after she convinced him of her “innocence,” so he tried to get her out of prison, but his matter was revealed and she was shot to death in October 1976.

After 5 years in aggravated prison, she was released on February 13, 1980 in a swap deal with Palestinian prisoners Mahdi Bseiso and William Nassar on the island of Cyprus under the supervision of the Red Cross.

There were many stories about her end. The first - which is the predominant and most likely - says that she returned to Tel Aviv and ended her relationship with the Mossad. She was given a reward of 60 thousand shekels and her livelihood and security were guaranteed. It was said that an operation was performed to change her features and she was given a new identity and a house in the settlement north of Haifa with strict security protection for fear of a threat. Her family, and she lived the rest of her life alone and in a difficult psychological state, as all her attempts to renew ties with her family and people in Jordan failed, because they considered her dead.

In 1984, the Israeli Minister of Defense issued a decision to pay Amina a permanent pension, and allocated to her a plaque of honor at the entrance to the Mossad building, especially for its most skilled agents.

In the 1990s, she moved to Nazareth, opened a clinic to treat skin diseases, and established a friendship with the family of a Muslim patient whose husband was an imam imprisoned on charges of incitement against Israel.

She tried again to communicate with her family after Israel signed the peace agreement with Jordan, and after repeated attempts, she visited her and met her coldly, and after that the relationship with her family was renewed.

Death

Other stories were circulated about Amina's end, but they are not documented. They say that she obtained an American passport after modifying her facial features with plastic surgery and lived in Texas. A second story says that she moved to South Africa in 1985 and gave birth to a son from a Romanian officer and named him Moshe, while a third story says She committed suicide with an injection inside her room in the neurology department at Tel Hashomer Hospital in Tel Aviv.

Amina Daoud Al-Mufti died at the end of 2008 in Jordan at the age of 69 after bequeathing all her assets in Israel to the family of the imprisoned imam and was buried in Amman.

Source: Al Jazeera + websites