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SYLVIA ROTH, 100, of
West Bloomfield, died
March 18, 2019.
She is survived by her
son and daughter-in-
law, Gary (Terrie) Roth;
daughters and son-in-
law, Susan (Dr. Terry) Weingarden
and Linda Roth; grandchildren, Julie
Dubin, Kevin (Shelly) Weingarden,
Briana Roth, Jesse Roth, Cory
Roth and Dylan Roth; great-
grandchildren, Joshua, Samantha,
and Ariana Dubin, Brandon,
Zachary and Avery Weingarden, and
Noah Roth; nieces and nephews,
Carol (Jerry) Berhorst, Terry (John
Leibengudt) Brass.
Mrs. Roth was the beloved wife
of the late Jack Roth; the daughter
of the late Julius and the late Rose
Brass; sister of the late Judy (the late
Albert) Dresner, the late Sonny (the
late Barbara) Brass; aunt of the late
Richard Dresner and the late David
Brass.
Interment was held at Adat
Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery
in Livonia. Contributions may
be made to Jewish Senior Life,
the Anti-Defamation League, the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit or to a charity of one’
s
choice. Arrangements by Dorfman
Chapel.
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of blessed memory
Spy who Captured Nazi
Adolf Eichmann Dies
Rafi Eitan, the Israeli spy who led the
team that captured Nazi leader Adolf
Eichmann in Argentina
and later was the handler
of American spy for Israel
Jonathan Pollard, has died.
Eitan, who also served in
Knesset for three years until
2009 as pensioner affairs
minister, died at a hospital
in Tel Aviv on Saturday,
March 23, 2019, at the age
of 92.
Eitan and his team of
agents from the Mossad
intelligence agency in 1960
kept Eichmann under sur-
veillance at his home in a suburb of
Buenos Aires where he lived under a
pseudonym, snatching him when he
got off a city bus and keeping him for
a week in a safe house before spiriting
him out of the country disguised as a
sick El Al steward. Eitan later attended
the trial of Eichmann, the architect of
the program of extermination of the
Jews of Europe.
Mossad Director Yossi Cohen said of
Eitan: “The foundations that Rafi laid
in the first years of the state
are a significant layer in
the activities of the Mossad
even today. The people of
Israel owe him much.
”
In 2014, Eitan admitted
on Israeli television to being
the handler of Pollard, the
civilian intelligence ana-
lyst for the U.S. Navy who
passed classified material
to Israel in 1984 and 1985.
Eitan is also the Israeli
official who gave the order
that prevented Pollard
from entering the Israeli Embassy in
Washington, D.C., to request asylum
after he was discovered.
Following the Pollard chapter, Eitan
lost his job in Israeli intelligence and
became head of Israel Chemicals. He
retired from the state-owned company
in 1993 at the age of 67.
He is survived by his wife, three
children and grandchildren. ■
MARCY OSTER JTA
Rafi Eitan speaks in the
Knesset plenum in 2008.
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