Inshirah Moussa and Ibrahim Shaheen

Inshirah Moussa and Ibrahim Shaheen was born in 1937 in Minya

Inshirah Moussa was born in 1937 in Minya, Egypt. Her husband, Ibrahim Shaheen, was a low-level civil servant of Palestinian origin living in El Arish. He was demoted for disciplinary reasons and faced money problems.

After Israel took the Sinai Peninsula in June 1967, Shaheen asked Israeli military authorities for a permit to return to Egypt and for financial help. He agreed to pass intelligence to Israel for pay, which rose over time. The couple ran a home appliances store in Egypt and traveled under false identities with Israeli passports.

Their intelligence led to the killing of Egyptian Chief of Staff Abdul Munim Riad on 9 March 1969. In August 1974 Egyptian intelligence traced Shaheen's transmitter, and both were arrested, tried and sentenced to death. Shaheen was executed in 1977.

After an Israeli appeal in November 1977, President Anwar Sadat pardoned Moussa and her 3 children, who moved to Israel and converted to Judaism. She took the name Dina Ben David. She died in Tel Aviv on 24 November 2021 and was buried in Yarkon Cemetery.