Ibrahim_Shaheen
Ibrahim Shaheen and Inshirah Moussa
Palestinian and Egyptian couple who were Israeli spies
Ibrahim Shaheen (1929-1974; Arabic: إبراهيم شاهين) and Inshirah Moussa (1937 - 24 November 2021); Arabic: إنشراح موسى) were an Egyptian couple who worked for the Israeli intelligence service Mossad from June 1967 until their arrest in 1974.[1][2] The couple provided Israel with the intelligence that led to the assassination of Egyptian Chief of Staff Abdul Munim Riad on 9 March 1969 while he was on an official visit to a position near the Bar Lev Line.[3]
Ibrahim Shaheen was a former low-level civil servant of Palestinian origin living in El Arish demoted from his job for disciplinary reasons and was struggling financially.[3] He was recruited by the Mossad after the Israeli invasion of the Sinai in June 1967, when he petitioned the Israeli local military authorities to issue a travel permit for him to return to Egypt where his children lived and help him with food as he was completely penniless and unable to work due to the war conditions.[3] He continued to provide Israel with intelligence in exchange of cash payments which started at US$70 a month and was increased later to US$2500 monthly. During the period 1967-1974, the couple opened a home appliances store in Egypt and lived quite comfortably and traveled frequently inside Egypt and abroad as they were provided with fake identities and Israeli passports obfuscating the tracking of their international travels.[3]