A big and rare photograph from the canopy of Marcel Ninio, the heroine of "Operation Susanna", in which Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir hands her a glass of wine. Nino, who was serving a 14-year sentence in an Egyptian prison for her involvement in the 'Essek HaBish', was released in February 1968, and in 1971 married Eli Bugor. All the heads of state at the time attended her wedding. The canopy editor was Rabbi Shlomo Goren, and was also present General Rehavam Zeevi (Gandhi) ; The head of the Mossad, Major General Meir Amit; Robert Desa, inmates of the affair, Prime Minister Golda Meir, and many other high-ranking participants from the The Israeli Mosad.
In an article by journalist Uri Dan published in the Ma'ariv newspaper on November 24, 1971, under the headline "Spy wedding", he describes the wedding: "All the survivors of the Cairo spy and sabotage network were there ... Prime Minister Golda Meir is just as excited as the bride holding her hand Of Marcel ... Golda Meir said (referring to the heads of the Israeli Mossad who were present at the wedding): "It seems unrealistic to see this whole group here but in this country the imagination becomes a reality ...". The prime minister added that she felt like she had led her youngest daughter to the canopy "(Nino was an orphan of both her parents, and Prime Minister Golda Meir actually filled her mother's place in the canopy).
Marcel Nino-Boger [1929-2019], one of the protagonists of "Operation Susanna", known as "Essek HaBish" - the Israeli espionage affair in Egypt in the early 1950s. Marcel Ninio's role was to liaise with members of the network (trained for intelligence gathering missions), and to transfer packages between the two squads - in Cairo and Alexandria. Squad members were apprehended after follow-up. When the squad members were arrested, Nino was staying in the resort town of Ras El Bar, where rumors reached her that her friends had been arrested. She went back to her apartment and burned anything that could indicate her actions. And waited in the apartment, whose operators would come to pick her up: "I waited like a mouse in a cage", She later told, but no one came. Whereas, back to the resort town where she had stayed a few days earlier. Then she noticed that someone was following her everywhere, and she was arrested by Egyptian intelligence, taken to Alexandria, for interrogations during which she was severely tortured. Her trial began on December 11, 1954, in an Egyptian military tribunal, and she was sentenced to 15 years in prison. After the Six Day War, the head of the Mossad, Meir Amit, pressured the release of the Egyptian captives held by Israel on the release of four prisoners left in Egypt, including Marcel Ninio, with IDF prisoners. Thanks to this pressure, Nino was released and arrived in Israel on February 12, 1968. Marcel had no children, but she adopted the children of her husband Eli Boger. In 1988, Marcel Ninio was chosen to light a beacon together with the 11 Beacon lighters at the opening ceremony of the 40th Independence Day of the State of Israel.
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Size: 25x19 cm. Very good condition.
