death_place death_date birth_place conviction_penalty charge birth_date article_title name
pretoria , south africa 9 february 2005 cape town , south africa 5.5 years in prison murder , espionage , use of forged documents 01 april 1937 sylvia rafael
 sylvia rafael
sylvia rafael

sylvia rafael schjødt -lrb- born 1 april 1937 , south africa -- died 9 february 2005 , pretoria , south africa -rrb- was a south african-born israeli mossad operative and was convicted of conspiracy to commit an assassination .
born near cape town in 1937 , she was the daughter of a jewish father .
although her mother was not jewish , rafael immigrated to israel in 1963 , where she lived on a kibbutz , later working as a teacher .
she later moved to tel aviv , where she was recruited by mossad .
after training she attained the highest rank for a mossad agent -- `` combattant '' , qualified to operate in hostile countries .
she was sent to paris in the guise of a freelance journalist with a canadian passport in the name of real life canadian photojournalist patricia roxburgh .
when the israeli government decided to track down the munich terrorists she provided valuable intelligence which led to the killing of three , before being assigned to an operation wrath of god team herself .
rafael was part of a group of israeli mossad agents who assassinated a moroccan-born waiter ahmed bouchiki , whom they claimed to have mistaken for ali hassan salameh , in lillehammer on 21 july 1973 .
the victim 's pregnant norwegian wife witnessed the murder .
the murder is known as the lillehammer affair .
she was arrested shortly after and convicted of planned murder -lrb- the most serious murder conviction under norwegian law -rrb- , espionage and use of forged documents by eidsivating court of appeal on 1 february 1974 .
sentenced to five and a half years in prison , she was released after serving 15 months , and deported from norway as a foreign criminal in may 1975 -lrb- foreigners convicted of serious crimes are routinely deported after serving their sentences -rrb- .
after her release , she married her defense attorney , annæus schjødt , but was deported again after entering the country in 1977 .
two years later she obtained a residence permit , but left the country with her husband in 1992 and settled in her native south africa , where she died in 2005 , aged 67 , from leukaemia .
