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2 days ago · “June Zero” tells the story through three characters: a 13-year-old Jewish Libyan immigrant to Israel, the Jewish Moroccan prison guard who guarded Eichmann’s cell, and a Holocaust survivor who...
2 days ago · The abduction and show trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann transfixed Israel in the early 1960s. Captured by a Mossad team in Argentina, where he had fled after World War II, he was one...
5 days ago · The story of the 1961 trial and 1962 execution of Nazi Adolf Eichmann has been told extensively, from Hannah Arendt’s contemporaneous book “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil” to the 2018 film “Operation Finale” and a long list of documentaries.
5 days ago · The film dramatizes the 1960 capture of Adolf Eichmann, a notorious Nazi war criminal, by Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad. Eichmann was discovered hiding in Argentina and was brought to Israel to stand trial for his crimes during World War II.
2 days ago · One high-profile success, the capture in 1960 of former Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina by a Mossad team and his exfiltration to Israel to stand trial for war crimes, demonstrated the agency’s proficiency and confidence in high-risk operations.
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2 days ago · In 1959, Ben-Gurion learned from West German officials of reports that the notorious Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, was likely living in hiding in Argentina. In response, Ben-Gurion ordered the Israel foreign intelligence service, the Mossad, to capture the international fugitive
2 days ago · The Mossad's most celebrated exploits included the abduction of the fugitive Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who was later tried and hanged in Israel. Others were organising the defection of an Iraqi pilot who flew his MiG-21 to Israel, and support for Iraqi Kurdish rebels against Baghdad.
