![Top l-R] RAFI EITAN, AVRAHAM SHALOM, [Below L-R] YAAKOV GAT, TZVI AHARONI Fifty years later, Haaretz newspaper made contact with four out of the seven unit members in order to gather their recollections of the mission that was undoubtedly one of the GSS’s most historic operations. Today, the four retired operatives, the only ones still alive, are all in their eighties:Tzvi Aharoni lives in England; Raffi Eitan made a brief appearance as an MK in the previous Knesset; Avraham Shalom, a former GSS chief; and Yaakov Gat. Although he is presumed still alive, the identity of the mysterious anesthesiologist was never revealed, since ‘he preferred to be a doctor, not a dead man.’
This past week, Sha’ah Tovah presented selections from this special interview, in which the four agents divulged many details for the first time since the operation](http://www.vinnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/eichk1.png "eichk1")
England – Every evening, at precisely 7:40 p.m., Riccardo Klement alighted from a dusty #203 bus and walked down a narrow path leading to his house on Garibaldi Street in the San-Fernando suburb of Buenos Aires. The path was dark and shadowy, and Klement used a small ashlight to illuminate his way home where his wife and children awaited him. Upon his arrival, the family would sit down to dinner lit by kerosene lamp.
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On Wednesday, May 11, 1960, Riccardo Klement did not arrive home punctual as always. The hands of the clock ticked by as the Klements waited, unaware that they were
not the only ones becoming impatient… Several hours earlier, two black American cars had parked near the bus stop closest to Klement’s home. One was a brand-new uxury Chevrolet; the other, a run-down Buick that appeared in need of a towing. Seven men waited inside the cars – six seasoned GSS officers and a doctor. Their presence in that shadowy street was the culmination of years of searching across the world for the notorious SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Adolf Eichmann – now, nally, they were certain that they had located him.
Three men sat inside the black Chevrolet: Avraham Shalom, Deputy Chief of Special Operations; Yaakov Gat, GSS operative in Paris; and an anesthesiologist. Their mission
was to conrm that the man was indeed Eichmann, blind him with their vehicle’s headlights, and then help the other unit members escape with the captive.
The ramshackle Buick held the assault team, four in number. Their assignment was to grab Eichmann and bring him to one of their safehouses in the city. GSS Chief
of Special Operations Ra Eitan commanded the mission. Beside him in the driver’s seat sat the director of the Interrogations Department, Tzvi Aharoni, who would
interrogate Eichmann after the abduction. Tzvi Malchin, a strapping GSS operative, stood outside the car, next to the open hood; he would be the rst to attack. Beside
him was Moshe Tavor, another muscular GSS agent, who would assist Malchin in the physical assault. These two waited patiently for the conrmation signal to pounce on
Eichmann and pull him into the waiting vehicle.
Read the full story from this past week Sha’ah Tovah Magazine here PDF
The above article is reprinted with permission exclusive to VIN News from Sha’ah Tovah Magazine, a weekly publication.
Send them to find osama
Does anyone know what eichmans position in the govt was?
Eichmann ym”s was brought to justice and he got what he deserved, the Zionist Leaders from WWII who with their actions and in-actions prevented the rescue of hundreds of thousands jews have never been brought justice
If the zoinist state would not have gotten busy with “Yossele Shuchmacher” they would have caught mengele ym”sh as well.
Ben Gurion SHr”Y stopped the whole operation just to get Yossele.
I beg u all to not comment on #17 ,
Regardless if he is right with his argument if the zionist were helping or not, his comment is a shtik apikorses implying that tefila doesn’t help and as if an army can help when hashem wants the opposite. Its a busha that VIN even allows comments like this to be posted on a yiddishe site.
Rafael Eitan, who commanded the mission in 1960, I believe is the same individual, who in 1985, was responsible for having Jonathan Pollard abandoned by his handlers.
Some years ago here in Baltimore I approached a gentleman who taught Philo. at J.H. , now a gadol in Israel that I have a large number of books about the chorbin and maybe he could talk to children in school. His answer you should not talk about it because you can be”meyayish” and lose your emunah. I went through 7 years of Hitler of which 4 in KZ and have grandchildren who daven and learn torah. It is a dead subject except when Germany offers money alle zenen do