Eliahu Itzkovitz information

Eliahu Itzkovitz
Born	Chișinău, Kingdom of Romania
Allegiance	Israel (1952–1953) France (1953–1958)
Service/branch	Israeli Army Israeli Navy French Foreign Legion (1953–1958)
Unit	Paratroopers Brigade 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment
Battles/wars	First Indochina War

Eliahu Itzkovitz (1932 - 2015) was a Romanian Jew of Moldavian descent who, while a prisoner in a concentration camp during the Second World War, witnessed the murder of his family at the hands of a Romanian prison guard named Stănescu. Itzkovitz vowed to avenge his family's murder, but was unable to find the murderer after the war. He subsequently emigrated to Israel and served in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) until he learned that Stănescu had enlisted in the French Foreign Legion, thus leading him to desert from the IDF and join the Foreign Legion. Itzkovitz was able to track down and kill Stănescu in French Indochina. He was later court-martialed in Israel for desertion and sentenced to one year in prison.