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category: Other
summary: Palestinian student and friend of Ari Ben-Menashe who was the target of an
  attempted SHABAK recruitment of Ben-Menashe as an informant.
tags:
- Person
---

[Adel Mohammad Atamna](/people/adel-mohammad-atamna/) was a Palestinian from the Arab village of Kfar Kara'a, located within the pre-1967 [Israeli](/places/israel/) border. He was a student at Bar Ilan University in 1972, where he became friends with [Ari Ben-Menashe](/people/ari-ben-menashe/).[^1]

[Atamna](/people/adel-mohammad-atamna/) invited [Ben-Menashe](/people/ari-ben-menashe/) to teach English at his village high school. Their friendship deepened when [Atamna's](/people/adel-mohammad-atamna/) Jewish landlady evicted him for being Arab, leading [Ben-Menashe](/people/ari-ben-menashe/) to offer him his apartment. [Atamna](/people/adel-mohammad-atamna/) referred to [Ben-Menashe](/people/ari-ben-menashe/) as his brother.[^1]

[Atamna](/people/adel-mohammad-atamna/) was the individual SHABAK attempted to recruit [Ben-Menashe](/people/ari-ben-menashe/) to spy on, an offer [Ben-Menashe](/people/ari-ben-menashe/) refused.[^1]

[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.