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100 FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1991
Tel Aviv (JTA) — The
Jerusalem District Court
has finally lifted the veil of
secrecy that for 35 years sur-
rounded the case of Ze'ev
Avni, a rising young diplo-
mat in Israel's foreign ser-
vice who was convicted in
August 1956 of spying for
the Soviet Union.
The revelations were im-
mediately splashed across
the front page of the after-
noon tabloid Yediot
Achronot, which was in-
strumental in getting the
court to declassify the case.
Mr. Avni's story had been
only hinted at in previous
publications, including the
diary of the late Moshe
Sharett, Israel's first foreign
minister.
. Mr. Avni served 10 years
of a 14-year prison sentence
and has since led an
uneventful life practicing
psychology.
The revelations allowed
Issar Harel, retired chief of
the Israeli intelligence
agency Mossad, who first
confronted the spy, to com-
ment on the case. According
to Mr. Harel, Mr. Avni acted
not for monetary gain but
out of ideological convic-
tions.
"Basically he was an hon-
est man, a real gentleman,"
Mr. Harel said. "He changed
his attitude and did not ask
to receive privileges in
prison. He had become an
real Israeli patriot."
Mr. Avni was born in Riga,
Latvia, and during World
War joined a Soviet spy
ring aimed at the Nazis.
After the war, the Soviets
planted him in Israel as a
"mole," the term for a spy
who is a member of the
organization he is spying on.
Mr. Avni joined the foreign
service and rose rapidly,
serving as economic attache
at the Israeli embassies in
Brussels, Athens and
Belgrade.
As a high-ranking diplo-
mat, he "had access to the
most sensitive secrets, which
he gave the Russians," Mr.
Harel said.
In Brussels, Mr. Avni had
entree to the embassy cipher
room and was able to provide
his Soviet handlers with
Israeli codes with which
they could decipher top-
secret communications with
Jerusalem.
He acted not out of greed
but from the conviction of a
"devoted Communist," Mr.
Harel said. "I don't think he
meant to harm Israel. He
had the absurd Communist
perception that he was serv-
ing some noble doctrines he
thought right, morally and
historically."
Mr. Avni's downfall came
after four years. Mr. Harel
and Amos Manor, then head
of the Shin Bet internal
security agency, told him
they knew he was a Soviet
spy. After an initial denial,
he confessed all and coop-
erated.
According to Mr. Harel,
Mr. Avni was supplied with
newspapers and periodicals
while in prison and grad-
ually became disillusioned
with communism.
"He slowly realized how
wrong he was. He tried to
repair some of the damage
he had caused," the former
Mossad chief said. The daily
Ma'ariv reported that after
Mr. Avni left prison, the
Defense Ministry employed
him as a psychologist to
counsel settlers forced to
evacuate Ophira, in
southern Sinai, when the
peninsula was handed back
to Egypt.
He and his wife lived on
Kibbutz Mishmarot, near
Pardes Hanna, until recent-
ly, when the family moved to
a village near Hadera.
Israel Tourism
Takes Off
New York (JTA) — The
explosion of the Persian Gulf
war in January nearly
brought Israeli tourism to a
halt.
Although El Al forecasts
do not yet show an increased
number of tourists to Israel
this summer, the increasing
popularity of late bookings
has made such forecasts in-
creasingly unrealiable.
El Al, Israel's national
airline, was the only airline
to maintain regular flights
to Israel during the Persian
Gulf war, underscoring the
airline's commitment to
maintaining a consistent
schedule of flights to Israel
despite potential losses.
Immediately after the war,
the freighters were con-
verted back into passenger
planes to cope with the
overwhelming demand for
Passover flights to Israel.
In anticipation of the busy
summer tourist season, El
Al is offering its passenger
various deals and bonuses.
Its frequent flyer program,
however, is relatively weak.