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.