Yolande, The Egyptian Woman Who Spied For Israel

 With no Jewish holidays coming up immediately, we bring you profiles of some well known and some not so well known Jews. Enjoy.
 

By Leah Falk for Jewniverse

Gone are the days, it seems, when one could get recruited for espionage at a cocktail party. (Or maybe we’re just going to the wrong parties.) But that’s what happened to Yolande Harmer, an Egyptian Jewish spy for the Haganah, the precursor to the Israeli Defense Forces, whose intelligence became instrumental to the founding of Israel. A new film directed by Dan Wolman and produced by Harmer’s granddaughter Miel de Botton, Yolande: An Unsung Heroine, tells the story of her extraordinary, often dangerous life.


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