Mossad operative Sylvia Raphael
Posted: Friday, February 18th, 2005 7:43 amJERUSALEM — The Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, this week brought home to her final rest one of its legendary female operatives, Sylvia Raphael.
Only now is it being revealed that she was one of the secret agents who penetrated the PLO bases in Jordan and Lebanon four decades ago when a little-known gang leader named Yasser Arafat was beginning his terrorist attacks.
Her story reads like . . . well, like a spy novel. … Read full obituary