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Rafi Eitan: Mossad spy who captured Adolf Eichmann dies at 92

By Zach Halaschak
Published March 24, 2019 11:12pm ET
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Rafi Eitan: Mossad spy who captured Adolf Eichmann dies at 92
In this Monday, Dec. 12, 2011 file photo, Israeli Rafi Eitan, right, stands next to a showcase during an opening of an exhibition about Eichmann's capture at the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem. Eitan, a legendary Israeli Mossad spy who led the capture of Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann, has died. He was 92. | (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Rafi Eitan, the famed Israeli spy who led the team that captured Nazi war criminal and Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann, died Saturday in Tel Aviv at the age of 92.

Eitan is viewed as one of the fathers of Israeli intelligence and is a hero to many in Israel. He commanded the eight-man Mossad team that flew into Argentina where the infamous SS officer was hiding and extracted him, bringing the Nazi back to Israel to stand trial.

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