birth_place party partyyears birth_date image article_title ministeryears minister
ein harod , mandatory palestine gil 2006 -- 2009 23 november 1926 rafi eitan big.jpg rafi eitan
 2006 -- 2009 minister of pensioner affairs
rafi eitan

`` for the former israeli defense forces chief of staff and former israeli minister of agriculture , see rafael eitan '' rafael `` rafi '' eitan -lrb- ; born 23 november 1926 -rrb- is an israeli politician and former intelligence officer .
today he leads gil and is a former minister of pensioner affairs .
in the past , he was in charge of the mossad operation that led to the kidnapping of adolf eichmann .
he served as an advisor on terrorism to prime minister menachem begin , and in 1981 he was appointed to head the bureau of scientific relations , then an intelligence entity on par with mossad , aman and shabak .
eitan assumed responsibility for and resigned over the jonathan pollard affair , and the bureau was disbanded .
from 1985 until 1993 , he was head of the government 's chemicals company , which was expanded under his leadership .
after 1993 , he became a businessman , noted for several large scale agricultural and construction ventures in cuba .
