Israeli politician and intelligence officer (1926–2019)
For the former Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff and former Israeli Minister of Agriculture, see Rafael Eitan.
Rafi Eitan
Ministerial roles
2006–2009
Minister of Pensioner Affairs
Faction represented in the Knesset
2006–2009
Gil
Personal details
Born
(1926-11-23)23 November 1926 Ein Harod, Mandatory Palestine
Died
23 March 2019(2019-03-23) (aged 92) Tel Aviv, Israel
Rafael Eitan (Hebrew: רפי איתן; 23 November 1926 – 23 March 2019)[1] was an Israeli politician and intelligence officer. He also led Gil and served as Minister of Senior Citizens. He was in charge of the Mossad operation that led to the arrest of Adolf Eichmann. He served as an advisor on terrorism to Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and in 1981 he was appointed to head the Bureau of Scientific Relations, then an intelligence entity on par with Mossad, Aman and Shabak. Eitan assumed responsibility for and resigned over the Jonathan Pollard affair, and the Bureau was disbanded. He was subject to an arrest warrant issued by the United States FBI.[2] From 1985 until 1993, he was head of the government's Chemicals company, which was expanded under his leadership. After 1993, he became a businessman, noted for several large scale agricultural and construction ventures in Cuba. He was the chairman of the Vetek (Seniority) Association – the Senior Citizens Movement.[3]
^"Rafi Eitan, ex-minister and legendary spy who captured Eichmann, dies aged 92". The Times of Israel. March 23, 2019. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
^"Rafi Eitan: Mossad spy who captured Adolf Eichmann dies". BBC News. March 23, 2019.
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mission was on May 11, 1960, when he and a team of Mossad agents led by RafiEitan captured Adolf Eichmann, then living and hiding in Argentina. A senior...
Harel arrived in May 1960 to oversee the capture, and Mossad operative RafiEitan was appointed as the leader of the eight-man team, consisting mostly of...
suspicion. RafiEitan, Pollard's Israeli handler, stated that Pollard never exposed American agents in the Soviet Union or elsewhere. Eitan said he believed...
securing secret technology. It was dissolved in 1986, and its director, RafiEitan, resigned over the exposure of Jonathan Pollard, whom a United States...
Israeli intelligence agency headed by Benjamin Blumberg (1957–1981), and RafiEitan (1981–1986). It collected scientific and technical intelligence abroad...
Ames allegedly betrayed, was a Kremlin-loyal false defector all along. RafiEitan, the Israeli handler of Jonathan Pollard, alleged that Pollard was blamed...
Hanna Elian (based on Yonah Elian) Lior Raz as Isser Harel Nick Kroll as RafiEitan Michael Aronov as Zvi Aharoni Haley Lu Richardson as Sylvia Hermann Joe...
named "Salt Fish" headed by special operations experts Meir Dagan and RafiEitan to track Arafat's movements in Lebanon to kill him because Sharon saw...
conducted operations for Mossad from 1964, working with Avraham Ahituv and RafiEitan. Other unnamed sources asserted Skorzeny was recruited after Mossad visited...
British writer and intelligence expert Gordon Thomas, former Mossad agent RafiEitan told him how the inspectors were fooled: A bogus control center was built...
victims who immigrated to the US after the war." In 2007, Israeli MK RafiEitan made suggestions that were interpreted as a claim to reopen the agreement...
Basic Law, Netanyahu informed Peres and acting Knesset speaker, Michael Eitan, that he was able to form a government and the Knesset was set to convene...
There, Monster in the Closet), producer and marketer, fungal infection. RafiEitan, 92, Israeli intelligence officer and politician, member of the Knesset...
former agents talked with disconcerting frankness about their operations...RafiEitan, who snatched Eichmann, would have killed him instantly if a problem had...
named "Salt Fish" headed by special operations experts Meir Dagan and RafiEitan to track Arafat's movements in Lebanon to kill him because Sharon still...
1968, four Israeli intelligence agents visited NUMEC; among them was RafiEitan, who was listed as a defense ministry chemist.[verification needed] The...
Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann in Argentina (an operation led by RafiEitan) and to his subsequent trial in Israel in 1961. Simon Wiesenthal became...
been conceived by Israeli intelligence. The organizer of the plot was RafiEitan who led Israeli intelligence's anti-terrorist group. The operation was...
Maccabiah Games in the aftermath of the Maccabiah bridge collapse, and RafiEitan before the US authorities in the Jonathan Pollard affair. He did military...
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