The premiere episode of the documentary series 'Ashraf Marwan - A Pseudonym,' which aired last night on Channel 14 and was produced with the support of the Samaria Film Foundation, reveals the Dar es Salaam center in Kafr Qara, but it also features a moving human story of a young Jewish Israeli woman who found herself at the heart of the ISIS organization in Syria.
We are now revealing additional details that emerged from an investigation by the 'Jewish Voice' website, on which the series is based.
The young woman, a resident of one of Israel's largest cities, converted to Islam in 2013 at the office of Mufti Ekrima Sabri on the Temple Mount. The person who converted her to Islam, as can be seen in the video revealed in the series, is Sheikh Rasan Atamna, founder of the Dar e-Salaam Center in Kafr Qara, who died of an illness years later.
The young woman, whose details will not be disclosed for privacy reasons, later married a young Arab teacher from Kafr Qara named Salah al-Din Mahamid. He was arrested in 2014, after the wedding and while his wife was pregnant, on suspicion of being an ISIS operative.
His lawyer then argued before the court that his client leads a normal lifestyle and comes from a normal and respectable family, and that only a few days before his arrest he had begun teaching at a high school in the village of Jisr a-Zarqa. He was eventually released after a few days in detention.
However, after a while, he left the country with his wife and traveled through Turkey to Syria and joined ISIS forces.
Saladin Mahamed in Syria. Photo: Courtesy of Channel 14
From there, he sent pictures of himself with weapons and ammunition and an ISIS film, as well as of his infant son - a Jew according to Jewish law, wrapped in ISIS film and surrounded by weapons.
""During the investigation, we located the woman's certificate of conversion to Islam, which was given to her by the inciting Mufti Ekrima Sabri," said Elhanan Groner, a reporter for the Jewish Voice. "According to rumors in Wadi Ara, Mahamid was killed. Our attempts to find out what happened to the woman and the child were in vain.
""This is one of the most shocking stories that shows where a young Jewish woman can end up, partly with the help of the Dar es Salaam center's Islamization process.".
The Jewish baby with the ISIS ribbon. Photo: Courtesy of Channel 14
The second episode of the series 'Ashraf Marwan - Pseudonym' will air tonight (Wednesday) at 10:30 PM on Channel 14.
In this episode, the center's sources of funds are expected to be revealed, and the human plot develops and branches out, and 'Ashraf Marwan,' the mysterious figure who sends materials about the Islamic Center, is expected to be exposed.
The character named herself this as a paraphrase of the famous Egyptian spy who warned the State of Israel about the Yom Kippur War, while operating directly from within the Egyptian government.
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