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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.

MICHAL FATTAL/FLASH900

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