Rafi Eitan, Mossad's savvy spy-master who led the operation to capture the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina – obituary

RAfael "Rafi" Eitan, who died at the age of 92 in Tel Aviv, was a renowned warlord of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.

Eichmann was one of the leading organizers of the Holocaust during the Second World War during which six million Jews died. his role was to manage the logistics of the mbad deportation of Jews to the gas chambers.

After the war, Eichmann managed to obtain travel permits for Argentina and a false identification under the name of "Ricardo Klement". Traveling through Europe, staying in monasteries and refuges, he finally reached Buenos Aires in 1950, where he remained discreet.

But the Israelis have discovered …