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Palestinian student and friend of Ari Ben-Menashe who was the target of an attempted SHABAK recruitment of Ben-Menashe as an informant. |
Adel Mohammad Atamna was a Palestinian from the Arab village of Kfar Kara'a, located within the pre-1967 Israel border. He was a student at Bar Ilan University in 1972, where he became friends with Ari Ben-Menashe.1
Adel Mohammad Atamna invited Ari Ben-Menashe to teach English at his village high school. Their friendship deepened when Adel Mohammad Atamna Jewish landlady evicted him for being Arab, leading Ari Ben-Menashe to offer him his apartment. Adel Mohammad Atamna referred to Ari Ben-Menashe as his brother.1
Adel Mohammad Atamna was the individual SHABAK attempted to recruit Ari Ben-Menashe to spy on, an offer Ari Ben-Menashe refused.1
Footnotes
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Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015). ↩︎