branch birth_place allegiance unit battles article_title name
israel foreign legion 1953 -- 1958 israeli army israel naval israeli navy 23px french romania chişinău , romania israel 1952 -- 1953 france1953 -- 1958 israel paratroopers brigade 23px 3rd foreign infantry regiment first indochina war eliahu itzkovitz
 eliahu itskowitz
eliahu itzkovitz

eliahu itzkovitz was a romanian jew who during the second world war , while a prisoner in a concentration camp witnessed the murder of his family at the hands of a romanian prison guard named stănescu .
itzkovitz vowed to avenge his family 's murder at the hands of his fellow romanian , but was unable to find the murderer after the war .
after the war he subsequently emigrated to israel where he served in the israeli defense forces until he learned that stănescu had enlisted in the french foreign legion which led him to desert from the idf and join the foreign legion .
itkowitz was able to track down and kill stănescu in french indochina .
he was later court-martialed in israel for desertion and sentenced to one year in prison .
