Isser Harel — mossad chief with roots in the Russian Empire
Isser Harel was a Belarusian-born Israeli intelligence chief who served as the head of both Shin Bet and Mossad, and personally led the 1960 operation to capture Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and bring him to trial in Israel. He is considered the founding father of Israeli intelligence.
Tracing the roots — Vitebsk (Belarus)
Born in Vitebsk (Russian Empire, now Belarus) in 1912, Harel emigrated to British Mandatory Palestine in 1930. The Vitebsk of his childhood — the same city that shaped Chagall — was the Jewish world of the Russian Empire at its most vital. His relentless pursuit of Nazi war criminals was driven by the knowledge of exactly what had been destroyed.
The man who captured Eichmann. Born in Russian Empire.
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Vitebsk (Belarus). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"We hunted him not out of revenge but out of justice. There is a difference."