Zvi Aharoni (צבי אהרוני) (born 1921) was the Israeli Mossad agent who was instrumental in the capture of Adolf Eichmann.
Hermann Arendt (later Zvi Aharoni) was born in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. He immigrated to Palestine as a boy. After serving in the British Army, he joined the Israeli secret service and spent 20 years as a Nazi-hunter. He is the Mossad agent who identified "Ricardo Klement" as Eichmann.[1]
Aharoni flew to Buenos Aires and tracked down the family’s house in a remote neighborhood on the outskirts of town. On March 19, 1960, he spotted Eichmann. In his account of the capture, Aharoni wrote: "I saw him about two o'clock in the afternoon...a man of medium size and build, about fifty years old, with a high forehead and partially bald, collecting the washing."[2] He photographed Eichmann using a camera hidden in a bag.[3]