He died the Israeli intelligence agent who captured the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann in Argentina

He is the Israeli intelligence agent Rafi Eitan, commander of the command who kidnapped in Argentina in 1960 the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann, one of the main leaders of the "final solution", He died Saturday at the age of 92 in Israel. announced the Israeli public radio.

Eitan died Saturday afternoon at the Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, an Israeli coastal city, according to state radio, which gave no further details.

"Rafi was one of the heroes of the intelligence services of the State of Israel, with multiple actions in favor of the security of Israel ", Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. "We mourn his death," he added.

Eitan's death also unleashed an outstanding eulogy of Israeli internal security services, the Shin Bet.

"Rafi, who was one of the founders of the operational branch of Shin Bet, He directed and participated in a dozen historical operations that will remain secret for many years.Nadav Argaman, head of this agency, said in a statement.

Eitan was "a born fighter who surrendered to the mission and what he considered right ", Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said in a statement.

Born in November 1926 in a kibbutz in Palestine while he was still under British rule, Eitan entered the Israeli secret service of Mossad in the 1950s.

Eitan led a special group of eight Israeli intelligence agents, coordinated by Peter Malkin, who arrived in the Argentine capital in 1960. and they studied the habits of the Nazi genocide, which lived under another name. On May 11 of the same year, he was kidnapped on a city street and interrogated.

A few days later, they managed to get him out of the drugged country, disguised and carrying a fake pbadport, mocking the Argentine authorities until he was driven to the city of Haifa. in Israel, where he was tried.

In addition to his role in the abduction of Adolf Eichmann, Rafi Eitan is also known to have been Jonathan Pollard's contact agent, a US Navy badyst arrested in 1985 and jailed in the United States for 30 years for spying for the benefit of Israel.

After this affair, which caused a serious crisis of confidence between the United States and Israel, it was under US arrest warrant.

In 2006, at the age of 79, he was elected to Parliament and led the pensioners party, before becoming prime minister. He then stated that he had been operated on the heart a year ago.

"I do not see anything, but I run every morning, I do sculpture and my wife says I'm fine", he said.

Eitan was played by actor Nick Kroll in the movie "Final Operation", created by Netflix in August 2018, which precisely tells the operation to find and capture Eichmann in Argentina.