First Publish: 10/26/2014, 3:50 PM
It may be hard to believe, but Rabbi Avraham Sinai's journey to the
holy city of Tzfat in northern Israel, where he lives today with his
family, included a prolonged stint as a Hezbollah terrorist.
In his previous life, 52-year-old Rabbi Sinai was a Shia Muslim
living in Lebanon. Surprisingly, in the was the Palestine Liberation
Organization (PLO) terrorist group which initially pushed him towards
Israel.The PLO, made up mainly of secular Sunni Muslims, took over wide
swathes of territory in Lebanon, and mercilessly persecuted Shia Muslims
under their control.
"They did things that were worse than what is going on in Syria," Rabbi Sinai said in a recent interview with Israeli Channel 20.
He began helping Israeli intelligence, passing information on PLO movements in his area.
When the PLO's influence waned and the Shia terrorist group Hezbollah
was founded - with funding and support from Iran - Sinai's Israeli
handlers persuaded him to sign up.
For years, he worked as a spy within Hezbollah's ranks, climbing its
ranks and passing on valuable information on the terror group's
activities to Israeli intelligence - foiling several terrorist attacks,
he says.But eventually, his cover was blown, and he was forced to flee to a
region of southern Lebanon controlled by the Southern Lebanese Army
(SLA) - which was allied with Israel at the time.
Not long after, his Israeli handlers informed him his life was still
in danger, and relocated him to Israel. There, he converted to Judaism
along with his wife under the tutelage of the chief rabbi of Tzfat,
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu
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