Rafi Eitan

Rafi (actually, Rafael ) Eitan (Hebrew רפאל ( רפי ) איתן; born November 23, 1926 at Kibbutz En Harod ) is an Israeli politician and former intelligence chief Lakam.

Life

1938 Eitan joined the Haganah and joined in 1944 after leaving school for the Palmach. He was involved at the end of World War II in various covert operations to rescue Jewish refugees from the territories occupied by Germany ( Aliyah Bet).

In the Israeli War of Independence, he served at the Aman and reached the rank of captain. After that, he was one of the first Mossad employees and moved to the Shin Bet, where he was operations director. At the London School of Economics, he earned a bachelor's degree in economics.

In 1960, he led the Mossad operation to arrest of Adolf Eichmann. In 1978 he was anti-terrorism adviser to Prime Minister Menachem Begin. In 1981, he was instrumental in planning the destruction of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak. In the same year he became chief of the Lakam. Because of the Pollard affair, he joined back in 1985 as an office manager, Lakam was dissolved.

In 1985, Eitan head of state chemical society of Israel, which came in view of the Pollard affair in the United States on alienation.

After leaving there in 2003, Eitan on his own, among other things, developed extensive agricultural activities in Cuba.

Eitan was elected as chairman of the Pensioners Party in the Knesset in March 2006. In the government of Ehud Olmert, he was Minister for Pensioners. 2009 missed his party to re- enter parliament.

Eitan is married and has three children.