Meir Max Bineth

He was the first Israeli intelligence agent sent to an enemy country under a German identity, and was likely partly selected due to his early years in Germany.

He also built relations with German military and intelligence personnel and ranking ex-Nazi "advisors", who had found refuge in Egypt after the Second World War.

He suggested several projects to help improve Egypt's economy, believing that a crucial factor in generating wars between nations and communities is the lack of economic and social equilibrium.

He wrote in his prison cell for his defence, among other things, the line "I think that the principal cause of wars is the age-old fear existing between man and communities that there may not be enough bread for all."

Bineth had been ordered by a senior officer in Israel to deliver money for the group's needs and had met Marcelle Ninio a few times.