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Iseharel (Hebrew: ?, Isehol Berlin born 1912 - February 18, 2003) is a member of the intelligence espionage organization, the Israeli security service and Mossad ( 1952-1963). As Mossad director he was responsible for the capture and secret transportation to Israel of Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann.

Childhood and Youth

Ise Harel was born in Vitebsk, Russia (now Belarus) into a large and wealthy family. The exact date of his birth has not been passed down to him because the book's annotated chapter records the missing date of the relocation of the First World War to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the family's Vitebosk vinegar factory. It was a gift from his maternal grandfather, who had given way to vinegar in much of Tsarist Russia. The revolution broke out when young Ise was five years old, passing Vitebosk several times between the Whites and Manchester United. Once he saw Trotsky giving a speech in town.

When Harel's family faced difficulties, the Soviet regime confiscated their property. In 1922, they immigrated from the Soviet Union to independent Dvinsk Latvia. On the way, Soviet soldiers stole their suitcases containing their belongings. In Dvinsk, Ise began formal studies, completed primary school, and began secondary school. As he grew older, a Jewish national consciousness grew in him and he joined a Zionist youth organization.

When he was 16 years old, Harel began preparing to immigrate to British Mandatory Palestine. During this year he prepared for agriculture and the desire to join a collective farm.

With the outbreak of the Hebron Massacre in 1929, his friends decided to postpone their entry to strengthen Jewish settlements in Palestine. Documents prepared by 17-year-old Harel claim that when he was 18, he was eligible for a UK visa. In early 1930 he immigrated to Israel. He traveled across Europe from north to south on a boat in Genoa, carrying a pistol that he hid in a loaf of bread.

After the founding of Israel in 1948, Harel founded and became the first director of the Israeli Internal Security Agency, the Shin Bet. Later, he took over the Mossad a year after it was established in 1951. As chief of two of the country's three intelligence agencies, Harel had enormous power in Israel for the first 15 years.

The Eichmann Kidnapping

In 1957, members of the West German government provided information to Israel stating that Adolf Eichmann was living in Argentina under the name "Ricardo K." inside door". Eichmann, as head of Department IV-B4 in the Reich's main security office during World War II, played a crucial role in the planning and execution of the so-called "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."

Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion believes that legal and diplomatic methods seeking Eichmann's extradition from Argentina will fail. In 1959, he put Harel in charge of the operation's location, capture, and secret extraction of Eichmann from Argentina, with the intention of returning him to Israel for trial.

In April 1960, Harel's team of agents arrived in Buenos Aires, and tracked Eichmann to his residence in nearby San Fernando. Harel followed. On May 11, they kidnapped Eichmann as he walked from a bus stop to his home. [1] Days later, Eichmann was anesthetized and secretly placed on an Israeli diplomatic plane, disguised as a crew member. He flew to Tel Aviv. According to Harel himself, when he returned to Israel and captured Eichmann, Harel went to Ben-Gurion's office and said to the Prime Minister: "I brought you a gift. Eichmann is here."

The Eichmann station experiment and other charges, crimes against humanity, war crimes, anti-Semitic crimes, joining an illegal organization. He was found guilty and sentenced to death in December 1961, and his punishment was carried out on May 31, 1962. Eichmann's body was cremated and his ashes dispersed by the Israeli navy on the high seas.

Harel later expressed his belief that if Operation Eichmann had begun weeks earlier, the Mossad might have had a chance to understand Josef Mengele, the notorious doctor who presided over the train On Select Platform in Auschwitz. His book Operation, Garibaldi Street, became a bestseller and television movie.

Secret Speeches

Harel was also responsible for the intelligence coup, cementing the reputation of Mossad with the Western intelligence agency. In March 1956, three years after the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, his successor Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin's "cult of personality" and brutal bigotry in a speech that closed the session before Congress in ***20. Word spread about the incident, but U.S. intelligence agencies were unable to obtain the text of the so-called "secret speech."

There were copies of the Soviet Politburo speeches delivered in some Eastern European countries, and in Poland, a journalist named Viktor Grayevsky borrowed a copy from his girlfriend, who worked in the office of the Polish Communist Party's 1st A secretary. Grayevsky is Jewish and he had recently visited Israel and decided to immigrate; he gave a speech to Israeli embassy security officials in Warsaw, who in turn sent a copy of the photo to Harel in Tel Aviv.

Political career

After Harel left Mossad, he turned to politics.

He joined David Ben-Gurion's newly created National List before the 1969 elections, and was elected as a parliamentary party winning 4 seats. However, the party began to unravel after Ben-Gurion resigned, with two of the MKs defecting to Likud and other aligned parties. As a result, Harel lost his seat in the 1973 elections.

Personal life

Harel's strong stance stands in stark contrast to the austerity policies of his personal life. His neighbors gave him to a handful of government officials. Harel and his wife had a daughter named Miriam and three grandchildren.

Harel lectures and other Western intelligence officials shared the office, the most famous counterintelligence espionage organization James Jesus Angleton of the United States CIA