(1912-)
Mossad chief
Born Isser Halperin. He moved to Lithuania in 1922 and came back to Palestine. The Zionistic Isser, entered Haganah and tried to create an independent Jewish state. He changed his name into Harel in 1942. He helped the British to fight the Nazis, but supported the British presence opposition in his own country. He became the head of Haganah in 1944.In 1951, after the founding of Israel, he was named the head of Mossad - so called "memun" by the prime minister David Ben-Gurion. Isser reformed Mossad into one of the best intelligence services world-wide. He became famous by organizing the Adolf Eichmann arrestment in Buenos Aires in 1960.
He left Mossad in 1963 after some bickering with Ben-Gurion, after two Mossad spies were accused in Switzerland. Later, he was active as a Levi Eshkol advisor and he retired from the public life in 1966.
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