Zvi Aharoni (1921–2012)

Zvi Aharoni was born Hermann Arendt to a Jewish family in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1938, he emigrated with his family to the British Mandate of Palestine to escape the Nazis. During World War II, he served in the British Army and then joined the Mossad, Israel's secret service. In 1960, Aharoni was sent to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to look for Adolf Eichmann, a major organizer of the Holocaust and one of the most-hunted Nazi war criminals. After spotting Eichmann on the outskirts of the city, Aharoni was a member of the Mossad team that subsequently captured him and brought him to Jerusalem to stand trial. Aharoni later wrote a memoir, with Wilhelm Dietl, published in English in 1997 as Operation Eichmann: The Truth About the Pursuit, Capture, and Trial.