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MOSSAD CREATOR, EICHMAN CAPTURER ISRAEL HAREL DIES

[Notes below by Tom Gross]

Israel (“Little Isser”) Harel, considered to be the true creator of Israel’s external intelligence agency, the Mossad, died yesterday in a Tel Aviv hospital, aged 91.

(Reuven Shiloah actually set up the Mossad in 1951, but Harel than led it from 1952 and through much of the 1950s and 1960s.)

Harel was credited by Russian, American and British spy chiefs for making the Mossad one of the finest organizations of its kind in the world.

In the words of today’s headline in Israel’s best-selling newspaper Yediot Ahronoth, he was “The Man who made the Mossad.”

He personally directed the two-year operation to capture Adolf Eichmann, the SS officer who presided over the “Final Solution,” and after the war had escaped to Argentina where he lived under the pseudonym “Ricardo Klement”.

 

“HE WOULDN’T EVEN HAVE CAUGHT YOUR EYE”

Moshe Tabor, the Mossad operative who captured Eichmann, said Harel pl