Peter Malkin

Peter Zvi Malkin (Hebrew: פיטר צבי מלחין; Polish: Cywka Małchin, May 27, 1927 – March 1, 2005) was a Polish-born Israeli secret agent and member of the Mossad intelligence agency.

[3] In 1933,[4] his family fled to Palestine to escape the rising tide of German anti-Semitism; his sister, Fruma, and her three children who remained behind with 150 other relatives, were murdered in the Holocaust.

As Chief of Operations he played a major role in the capture of Israel Bar, a Soviet spy who had penetrated the highest levels of Israeli government.

Malkin established a unit known as Keshet whose expertise was infiltrating airline offices, travel agencies, airports, seaports and foreign embassies.

[9] Malkin's most famous mission was on May 11, 1960,[5] when he and a team of Mossad agents led by Rafi Eitan captured Adolf Eichmann, then living and hiding in Argentina.

He headed a group of agents from the Mossad's burglary unit who planted a bomb under a telephone at Mahmoud Hamshari's home who was the representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization to France.

[15] Malkin was also portrayed by Oscar Isaac in the 2018 movie Operation Finale (with Ben Kingsley as Eichmann) and by Chaim Topol (as a character named Michael) in the 1979 film The House on Garibaldi Street.

Malkin's gloves
Bronze casting of the gloves worn by Peter Zvi Malkin when he captured Adolf Eichmann .