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Moshe Marzouk

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An Israeli stamp honoring Dr. Marzouk

Dr. Moshe Marzouk was an Israeli spy in Egypt who was involved in the Lavon Affair. It revolved around nearly a dozen highly dedicated young Egyptian Jews who were asked, and agreed to spy for Israel against the country in which they were born. Why they were caught and more or less abandoned by Israel to incarceration and for a while, torture in Egypt's prisons to be finally released only 14 years later is a question that has never been answered.

Dr. Moshe Marzouk of Cairo was sentenced to death by Egypt and hanged in a Cairo prison. Israel glorified him as a martyr. His memory was sanctified. Neighborhoods and gardens were named after him in Israel, as were dozens of children born in the year 1955. At the same time it was not publicly conceded that he died in the service of Israel.