Cheryl Ben Tov

Cheryl Ben Tov (also Bentov, Hebrew שריל בנטוב ) Birth Name: Cheryl Hanin; * 1960, is an American real estate agent retired and former Israeli Mossad agent.

Ben Tov grew up near Orlando, Florida, where her father Stanley Hanin had founded Allied Discount Tire. In 1977, she moved to Israel to study for a semester Hebrew and Jewish history. In the same year she returned to the United States. After graduating in 1978, she joined the Israeli army. In 1985, she married Ofer Ben Tov, an Israeli intelligence officer, who introduced it in the Mossad, where she was educated and trained.

In 1986, she was known by her pseudonym " Cindy ", as they had been scheduled in London on the former Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu after this information and photos from the secret and then officially non-existent Israeli nuclear facility in Dimona to the British Sunday Times had come leave. The Sunday Times published this information on 5 October 1986, Israel thus unmasked as a nuclear power. Ben Tov to win the trust of Vanunu and to lure him on 30 September 1986 on a short break to Rome, where he was overwhelmed by Mossad agents drugged and abducted by sea to Israel succeeded. He was sentenced prison on 24 March 1988 for high treason to 18 years, of which he had to spend at least 11 years in solitary confinement.

Under her birth name Cheryl Hanin she lives with her ​​husband and two daughters back in the near Orlando, where she worked as an estate agent. At the same time she still owns a home in Israel.

Although she does not deny her former Mossad role as " Cindy ," Vanunu said in 2004 after his release that he could still not believe it, that " Cindy " was a Mossad agent.