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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

Rafi Eitan

Israeli politician and former intelligence officer Rafi Eitan. August 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
March 23, 2019, 8:15 pm
Mossad, Shin Bet, political leaders mourn passing of iconic spy Rafi Eitan
Legendary agent who led capture of Eichmann hailed as ‘brave fighter whose contributions to the security of Israel will be taught for generations to come’
By ToI Staff
Rafi Eitan on August 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
March 23, 2019, 6:30 pm
Rafi Eitan, ex-minister and legendary spy who captured Eichmann, dies aged 92
A former Shin Bet and Mossad officer, Eitan was also famous for being the handler of American-Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard; Netanyahu mourns ‘hero of Israeli intel community’
By ToI Staff
Former minister Rafi Eitan in a video message sent to members of the AfD party in Germany on February 1, 2018. (Screen capture/Facebook)
February 3, 2018, 8:42 pm
Israel slams ‘shameful’ former minister who endorses German far-right party
Rafi Eitan, the legendary spy who captured Eichmann, praises AfD for its attitude to Judaism, hopes its ideology takes over Europe
By ToI Staff
An Orthodox monk of Monastery of the Cross holds a water hose as he stands on the rooftop of the monastery during a fire near the "Valley of the Cross', in the center of Jerusalem on July 2, 2013. (FLASH90)
July 30, 2017, 11:46 am
Church land sales to anonymous buyers set homeowners on edge
Officials to meet amid high-profile sale of land in Jerusalem and elsewhere, but new owners say KKL refusing to extend lease on land, set to expire by 2050’s
By Sue Surkes
Ariel Sharon, second from right, as commander of an armored division in the Sinai during the Six Day War (Courtesy Israel Defense Force Archive)
October 16, 2016, 11:32 am
Morocco tipped off Israeli intelligence, ‘helped Israel win Six Day War’
King Hassan ll sharpened Israel’s edge by providing secret recordings of Arab leadership discussions in run-up to war, says former military intelligence chief
By Sue Surkes
The inn at Sha'ar Hagai (CC-BY-3.0 Bukvoed/Wikipedia)
September 27, 2016, 1:00 am
Campaign heats up against naming 1948 memorial for slain minister
Independence War vets oppose naming inn at Jerusalem foothills for controversial Rehavam Ze‘evi, who was not part of battle for Jerusalem
By Sue Surkes
Jonathan Pollard in a December 17, 1997, photo with Israel's communications minister Limor Livnat, who visited him in prison in Butner, North Carolina (photo credit: AP/ Ayala Bar)
November 20, 2015, 7:54 am
Jonathan Pollard, Jewish-American spy for Israel, going free after 30 years
Initially shunted aside but then adopted by Israel and demonized by parts of US defense establishment, agent finally being released Friday in a case that has haunted bilateral ties
By Mitch Ginsburg
This 1961 file photo shows Adolf Eichmann standing in his glass cage in the Jerusalem courtroom where he was tried and convicted of war crimes committed during World War II. (AP Photo,b/w file)
December 2, 2014, 1:02 am
Eichmann’s final barb: ‘I hope that all of you will follow me’
Rafi Eitan, the Israeli intelligence officer who seized him in Argentina, tells TV documentary of Nazi war criminal’s last mumbled words before he was hanged
By Mitch Ginsburg
Rafi Eitan, a former senior Shin Bet and Mossad officer, ran Pollard (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
November 30, 2014, 11:20 pm
Peres, Rabin knew Pollard was planted in US armed forces, handler says
Rafi Eitan admits for the first time Israeli leaders were aware of his activities, says he doesn’t regret turning Pollard in
By Mitch Ginsburg
Protesters outside the house of then-president Shimon Peres in 2011 call for the release of Jonathan Pollard from a US jail. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 3, 2014, 12:59 am
The operational fiasco at the heart of the Pollard affair
Whatever becomes of him in the current twists and turns, Jonathan Jay Pollard was ill served throughout by his Israeli handlers
By Mitch Ginsburg
An Israeli young woman waves the Israeli flag as she participates with hundreds of other Israeli youth in "the March of the Living" tour which involves visiting concentration and death camps in Poland. May 02, 2011. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
March 5, 2013, 8:30 pm
In Poland, a ‘breakthrough’ on Holocaust compensation
Warsaw, for first time, said willing to seriously discuss restitution
By Raphael Ahren
Rafi Eitan, a former senior Shin Bet and Mossad officer, ran Pollard (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
February 19, 2013, 9:24 am
‘Sharon was about to leave two-thirds of the West Bank’
Prime minister was drafting plan for a unilateral pullout when he fell ill, says his former adviser Rafi Eitan, and Netanyahu should tell Obama he’s ready for similar ‘mosaic separation’
By Elhanan Miller
Ben Zygier at his wedding (photo credit: screen capture Channel 10)
February 15, 2013, 8:38 pm
Israel denies it agreed to pay Zygier’s family millions
Senior Israeli source tells Australian paper that Canberra government was deeply familiar with Mossad agent’s activity
By Ron Friedman and Michal Shmulovich
Ben Zygier at his wedding (photo credit: screen capture Channel 10)
February 15, 2013, 10:15 am
Israel reportedly to pay Zygier’s family millions
Compensation deal said struck 6 weeks ago, after investigation concluded Australian-born agent committed suicide in jail; ex-Mossad official says there may be other Prisoner X’s
By Ron Friedman and Michal Shmulovich
Jonathan Pollard speaks during an interview at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, NC, May 1998. (AP/Karl DeBlaker/File)
December 14, 2012, 10:31 pm
Pollard gathered intel on Arab and Soviet weaponry, not US military activities, CIA document reveals
Declassified 1987 damage assessment says jailed spy’s Israeli handlers ‘never expressed interest in US military activities, plans, capabilities or equipment’
By Ron Friedman and JTA
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