JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel has neither confirmed nor denied reports that the remains of Israeli spy Eli Cohen, executed in Damascus in 1965, have been removed from Syria by a delegation from Russia.

In 1960, Egyptian-born Eli Cohen was recruited by the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency. He was dispatched to Argentina, where he posed as an expatriate Syrian businessman ...

The rumors that the body of Mossad spy Eli Cohen, who was killed in Syria in 1965, had been returned to Israel are false, IDF officials told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.