Heba Selim (1947-1974 - Arabic: هبة عبد الرحمن سليم عامر) was an Egyptian woman who worked as a spy for Mossad along with her fiancé Farouk Al-Fikki.
Originally from Asyut in middle Egypt,[citation needed] she grew up in the upper-class Mohandessin, Cairo suburb.
[1] After her recruitment by the Mossad, she married Farouk El Fikki, an Egyptian army engineer officer, and gathered information - through him - about the locations of anti-aircraft batteries, including the 2K12 Kub.
During the Yom Kippur War, intelligence provided by Selim enabled Israel to score many accurate hits against Egyptian forces, destroying many anti-aircraft missile bases at a heavy cost of men and material to Egypt.
After exhausting all appeals, including a petition for clemency by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to President Anwar Sadat that was denied,[1] Heba was executed by hanging as prescribed by law for civilian convicts, while El Fikki was executed by firing squad since he was a commissioned army officer at the time of conviction, as prescribed by Egyptian military law.