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Eitan, Rafi, 1926-2019

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Personal name headingEitan, Rafi, 1926-2019
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Variant(s)Etan, Rafi, 1926-2019
Eitan, Rafael, 1926-2019
Eytan, Rafi, 1926-2019
איתן, רפי, 1926-
Associated countryIsrael
Birth date1926-11-23
Death date2019-03-23
Place of birthʻEn Ḥarod (Israel)
Place of deathTel Aviv (Israel)
Field of activityIntelligence service Sculpture
Profession or occupationIntelligence officers Sculptors
Special noteNon-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inEitan, Rafi. Rafi Etan, pesalim: title page (רפי איתן = Rafi Etan) added title page (Rafi Eitan [in rom.])
OCLC, viewed Feb. 25, 2016 (hdg.: Etan, Rafi, 1926-)
New York times WWW site, viewed Mar. 25, 2019 (in obituary published Mar. 23: Rafi Eitan; b. Rafael Eitan, Nov. 23, 1926, in the British Mandate of Palestine to Zionists who had immigrated from Russia three years earlier and lived in a small settlement near Tel Aviv; d. Saturday [Mar. 23, 2019], Tel Aviv, aged 92; canny Israeli spymaster who commanded the Nazi-hunting team that captured Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and many years later was unmasked as the handler of Jonathan Jay Pollard, the American Navy intelligence analyst who pleaded guilty to passing on more than 1,000 secret documents to the Israelis; one of his avocations was sculpture; produced more than 100 pieces over more than 30 years)
Ish ha-sod, 2020: t.p. (רפי איתן = Rafi Etan) t.p. verso (Rafi Eytan [in rom.]) cover page 4 (1926-2019; born in ʹEn Ḥarod)
Associated languageheb