Isser Harel
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Isser Harel was spymaster of the intelligence and the security services of Israel and the Director of the Mossad. In his capacity as Mossad director, he oversaw the capture and covert transportation t
Dan Hadani collection
Rivka Harel, Yisrael Harel's wife, second from the right. Far left is Malka Braverman, the first woman to serve as deputy head of the Mossad
Adolf Eichmann's capture
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Operation Finale was conducted by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad to capture and secretly transport Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann from Argentina to Israel in May 1960.
Isser Harel
…of the intelligence and the security services of Israel and the Director of the Mossad (1952–1963). In his capacity as Mossad director, he oversaw the capture and covert transportation to Israel of Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann. Harel was the only individual in the history of the State of Israel to hold a position that consolidated both…
International Committee of the Red Cross identity document with a portrait of A. Eichmann, issued under the name Ricardo Klement, which enabled him to escape to Argentina
Peter Malkin in 1960 before departing for Argentina
Peter Malkin's gloves
Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion with participants in the Eichmann capture operation. From left to right: Rafi Eitan, Peter Malkin, Avraham Shalom. Photo taken approximately in the first half of the 1970s