Israeli spy Marcel Nino, who was implicated in the 1954 Lavon scandal of bombings in Egypt, died on Wednesday at the age of 89 in Israel after a recent health crisis, where she was buried in the presence of the head of the Mossad. A number of Israeli security and political figures.
Accidental explosion
The Lavon scandal, also known as the then Israeli war minister Pinchas Lavon, erupted after Egyptian authorities uncovered Operation Susanna, in which the Israeli Mossad planned a series of bombings in Cairo and Alexandria aimed at US and British interests in order to create a rift between the officers' system. Al-Ahrar 1952, the newly emerging government, and the United States of America, after an accidental bomb explosion in a member of the Israeli network, where the arrest led to the arrival of the remaining, and found belonging to a group belonging to Unit 131 in the Israeli Mossad, which was originally established to implement Milliyat against King Farouk, due to his anti-Israel tendencies, then continued the work of the network to sabotage Egyptian-American relations against the regime of July 1952.
The Egyptian authorities then arrested all 13 members of the network, one of whom, Mossad officer Max Bennett, committed suicide in prison, while two others, Musa Leito Marzouk and Samuel Bakhur Azar, were executed and life imprisonment was imposed on the rest. .
denial
For many years Israel initially denied its links to the network, and the founder of the Hebrew entity Ben-Gurion was able to impose an iron curtain on the story, but the scandal broke out strongly in the media in 1975, where the released network members defied censorship, and the political and military class exchanged accusations about the official. According to analysts and followers, a team that included then Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan, Director of the Ministry of War Shimon Peres and Chief of Military Intelligence Benjamin Jabali revealed the operation without the knowledge of Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon and Prime Minister Moses Sharett.
Back to militancy
Nino, the only woman in charge of the Mossad cell in charge of the operation, spoke fluent French and English, and a member of the group «Hashomih Hatzarieh», which brought together the national belief in Zionism with a Marxist anointing, the last of the arrested, and succeeded in burning papers belonging to the Mossad at the time of arrest. She was released in 1968 and was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel in Israel, where she joined Tel Aviv University, where she studied Hebrew and English literature.In 1971, she married Elie Bacilor, and then Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir attended her wedding ceremonies.