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Full Article Follow Reuters Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Read Powerful quakes again hit New Zealand's Christchurch | 10:43am EDT Samsung and Apple to end Nokia's smartphone reign 8:53am EDT "Meaningful probability" of a China hard landing: Roubini 9:31am EDT Activists slam Syria "Gay Girl" blog hoax 10:55am EDT U.S. adds formaldehyde to list of carcinogens 11 Jun 2011 Discussed 123 Alabama governor signs nation’s toughest immigration law 105 Obama weighs new steps to boost jobs 78 U.S. debt default unimaginable, creditors say Watched Obama resigns from church Mon, Jun 2 2008 Bodypainters apply their skill Mon, Jul 19 2010 Battles rage on the outskirts of Misrata Sun, Jun 12 2011 Alleged spy in Egypt immigrated to Israel from U.S. Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Lagarde strengthens IMF bid with Indonesia backing Sun, Jun 12 2011 Israel sees Syrian hand in Golan clashes, 23 dead Mon, Jun 6 2011 Syria says 23 killed in Sunday's Golan protest Mon, Jun 6 2011 Israeli forces kill 18 protesters: Syrian TV Sun, Jun 5 2011 Gaza activists warn Israel not to block new convoy Mon, May 30 2011 Analysis & Opinion Bin Laden deputy claims U.S. faces “jihadist renaissance” in Muslim world In Kabul’s only synagogue, Afghan merchants open up shop Related Topics World » Egypt » Israel » By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM | Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:24am EDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An alleged Israeli spy arrested in Egypt is a U.S. immigrant to Israel who once wrote that he hoped to promote Israeli policies in the Arab world, according to information he and others posted on websites. The man, detained Sunday in a development that could strain Israel's relations with Egypt's new leaders, was identified by the Egyptian MENA news agency as Ilan Chaim Grabel, a misspelling of his family name, Grapel. Ex-Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a former pointman in Israel's relations with Egypt, said on Israel Radio he hoped the arrest was not an attempt to "put peace into total freeze." Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979 which ordinary Israelis refer to as "the cold peace." Israel's ambassador to Cairo said Monday that Israel was looking into the case. The U.S. embassy in Cairo said it was working to confirm Grapel's identity and citizenship. On his Facebook page, Grapel made no secret of his presence in Egypt, writing that he was "preaching at al-Azhar," an Islamic university in Cairo, and that he had studied at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. The reference to al-Azhar later disappeared from the page. A judiciary source in Egypt said the arrested man had been active in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the revolt against Hosni Mubarak, after the former president stepped down. A statement issued by Egypt's public prosecutor said the suspect, ordered held for 15 days, had been sent to Egypt to recruit agents "trying to gather information and data and to monitor the events of the January 25 revolution." Photographs of Grapel on the Facebook page, on the website of the Israel Project -- a pro-Israel group where he trained in media relations in 2008, and in the online newsletter of an organization that raises funds for Israeli soldiers, matched those in a video clip of the suspect released by Egypt. Grapel's mother, Irene, said her son had been working for Saint Andrew's Refugee Services, a non-governmental organization, in Cairo. In a telephone interview with Israel's Channel 2 TV, she said he holds U.S. and Israeli citizenship and that she had not spoken to him since his arrest. WOUNDED SOLDIER Articles about Grapel's military service in Israel appeared in the New York Daily News and Israel's Haaretz newspaper in 2006. They said he had been wounded in the Lebanon war that year while serving as an Israeli paratrooper and had immigrated to Israel in 2005 from Queens, New York, at the age of 22. "He is a very special guy. He's an Arabist," Tsiki Ood, who said he was a friend of Grapel's, told Israel Radio, describing him as an American immigrant. "He's very intelligent ... He spoke Arabic. I hope he gets out of this trouble." After the war, Grapel spoke in the United States at fundraisers for wounded Israeli soldiers, according to the Internet newsletter of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces organization, which also cited his injury in Lebanon. It showed him in his paratroops uniform standing next to U.S. fundraisers and Israeli diplomats at functions in Chicago and Houston in 2006. Two years later, Grapel took part in the Israel Project's media fellows program in Jerusalem on "educating top young leaders in how to educate the press on Israel and Iran." In a comment that appears on the Israel Project's web page about the program, Grapel said he had been impressed by an Israeli Foreign Ministry's official's briefing on conveying Israel's positions to the Arab world. "It would be very rewarding for me if I were to be able to communicate as effectively (as the official) in such anti-Israel environments," Grapel wrote. (Additional reporting by Edmund Blair in Cairo) World Egypt Israel Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. 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