President Hafez Assad of Syria ordered the release of five Syrian Jews imprisoned for allegedly spying for Israel and they have since immigrated to Israel, according to the Cairo magazine October, quoted here by Davar Monday.
The Egyptian news weekly indicated their release was engineered by former President Jimmy Carter when he met with Assad in Damascus six months ago.
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