Nasim Nisr (also spelled Nissim Nasser; ar, نسيم نصر; he, נסים נסר; born 1968), is a Lebanese and former Israeli citizen who was convicted of spying for

Hezbollah Hezbollah (; ar, حزب الله ', , also transliterated Hizbullah or Hizballah, among others) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group, led by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah since 1992. Hezbollah's parami ...

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Nisr was born in Lebanon in 1968 to a

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father and a Jewish mother who converted to Islam after her marriage. In 1982, Nisr moved to Israel and obtained Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return. He lived in

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, and was married with two daughters. His immediate family remained behind in Lebanon. Nisr established ties with a Hezbollah agent through his brother in Lebanon. He was asked to supply maps of Tel Aviv marking electricity and gas installations, to extract intelligence from a top Israeli military officer, and to monitor the activities of Israeli armor near

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. He was arrested in 2002, tried and convicted of spying for Hezbollah, and sentenced to six years in prison in a

plea bargain A plea bargain (also plea agreement or plea deal) is an agreement in criminal law proceedings, whereby the prosecutor provides a concession to the defendant in exchange for a plea of guilt or '' nolo contendere.'' This may mean that the defendan ...

. During his imprisonment, he gave up his Israeli citizenship, hoping to be included in a prisoner exchange deal. His release in a prisoner exchange was a Hezbollah demand during the

2006 Lebanon War The 2006 Lebanon War, also called the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War and known in Lebanon as the July War ( ar, حرب تموز, ''Ḥarb Tammūz'') and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War ( he, מלחמת לבנון השנייה, ''Milhemet Leva ...

, which Israel refused. However, on 1 June 2008, he was deported to Lebanon as part of a prisoner exchange for the body parts of Israeli soldiers killed during the war.

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