[News] His role was embodied in the series "Friday of Shawan" .. The death of the intelligence man and Egyptian Minister Abdel Salam Al-Mahjoub

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CAIRO - The funeral of the former Egyptian officer, minister and governor, Mohamed Abdel Salam Mahjoub, who died on Monday evening at the age of 85, was held in Cairo, according to what the official news agency and Egyptian media announced. Al-Mahgoub served as Minister of Local Development in 2006 during the rule of the late President Hosni Mubarak, and before that he worked as governor of Ismailia (northeast) and Alexandria (north), the second largest Egyptian city. Some nicknamed Abd al-Salam "The Beloved" due to his po[CENSORED]rity.https://www.aljazeera.net/news/politics/2022/2/1/بطل-مسلسل-جمعة-الشوان-وفاة-رجل

Prior to that, Al-Mahgoub - who was born in 1935 and obtained a Bachelor of Military Science from the Military College in 1955 - was an officer in the Egyptian General Intelligence, and he became very famous among Egyptians thanks to the drama embodying his intelligence role played by the 1967 setback obstacle to Israel in one of the most famous Egyptian TV series. It is "Eyes in Rude Tears", starring Adel Imam in the role of Juma Al-Shawan, and the role of the veiled player in it was played by the late Egyptian artist Salah Kabil. The series, which was shown for the first time in 1980, tells a true story of the Egyptian sailor Ahmed Al-Hawan, who was recruited by Al-Mahjoub as a double agent who succeeded in penetrating the Israeli intelligence service, obtaining the latest spying devices in the world, and the operation concluded with a message from Al-Mahjoub to the Mossad, in which he stated, "We thank you for your cooperation" Which became one of the most famous Egyptian dramatic quotes, before moving to daily life.Mahgoub was serving as Deputy Director of Egyptian Intelligence when former President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak was subjected to an assassination attempt in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in 1996.And the media talked about other roles of the late, including smuggling the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat during the events of Black September 1970 in Jordan, as well as participating in the excavator operation that took place in the same year, during which an Israeli digger was destroyed in an African country, before he entered Israel to be used in Exploration for oil in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula, which was occupied at that time. And social networking sites in Egypt witnessed a state of sadness over the departure of Al-Mahjoub, and a number of its pioneers were keen to bid farewell to "Rais Zakaria" and "The Beloved Governor".