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Isser Harel (Hebrew: איסר הראל , 1912 – 18 February 2003) was spymaster of the intelligence and the security services of Israel and the Director of the Mossad (1952–1963). In his capacity as Mossad director, he oversaw the capture and covert transportation to Israel of Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann .
Feb 19, 2003 · Isser Harel, an Israeli master spy who directed the capture of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1960, died on Tuesday in Petah Tiqwah, outside Tel Aviv. He was 91.
Isser Harel started out in 1930 as a young Russian immigrant to Israel on a kibbutz. He later founded his own orange company. He will be best remembered, however, as the first director of the Mossad. By the 1940s Harel joined the Haganah and the British auxiliary forces to fight the Nazis.
Isser Harel was born in 1912 in White Russia as Isser Halperin. He immigrated to Israel in 1930 and joined a training group in Kibbutz “Shefayim”. He resided in the city of Herzliya from the year 1935, and was a member of the Haganah from nearly the day he set foot in Israel.
Feb 19, 2003 · Isser Harel, the spymaster who presided over Israel's long manhunt for Nazi fugitive Adolf Eichmann, which culminated in the SS mastermind's being captured, spirited to...
Aug 28, 2018 · In 1975, Isser Harel, director of the Argentinian operation, wrote The House on Garibaldi Street, the first full account of what took place. Details of the secret mission have leaked out over...
TEL AVIV — Isser Harel, who founded Israel’s intelligence community and directed the capture of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann, died this week at 91 after a lengthy illness.
Feb 19, 2003 · Isser Harel, who has died aged 91, was the most famous Israeli spymaster; as the second boss of Mossad (which was established in 1951 to gather intelligence from abroad and run special operations...
Feb 19, 2003 · Isser Harel, considered the founder of Israel's intelligence community, died yesterday at the age of 91 after a lengthy illness. Harel ran the Shin Bet security service for 15 years and the Mossad for 11 years, and was largely responsible for both agencies' worldwide reputations.
harel, isser (1912–2003) Founder of Israel's intelligence community, second and most powerful head of Mossad. Born Isser Halperin in Russia, he immigrated with his family in 1931 to mandatory Palestine.
