Word: azar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cairo prison. As a rabbi intoned Hebrew prayers, the executioner seized the white-faced surgeon, cuffed his hands in leather, bound his eyes in black cloth, led him into the death chamber, closed the door, and snapped the gallows trap. Half an hour later, 26-year-old Samuel Azar, a teacher, walked the same path of no return, and the ancient and endless quarrels of the Middle East were washed with the fresh blood...
Marzuk and Azar died convicted of spying for Israel, despite protests at the severity of the sentence from the French and U.S. governments, the International League for the Rights of Man. and many other groups. Egypt's army junta bristled at such "interference" from outside...
After nearly a month's trial and 22 days of deliberation, Egypt's five-man Supreme Military Court handed down verdicts last week on ten Jews accused of committing espionage and sabotage for Israel. For two-Samuel Azar, 26, a teacher, and Dr. Moussa Lito Marzuk, 28, a surgeon-it was death by hanging; for six others, prison sentences ranging from seven years to life at hard labor; for two others, acquittal...