The Israelis have always hunted terrorists Israel began its retaliation operations by hunting down war criminals. On May 11, 1960, Adolf Eichmann was captured near his home in Argentina, who was then hanged in Israel by court verdict. In 1979, the chief physician of Auschwitz, Josef Mengele (Doctor Death), drowned under strange circumstances on a Brazilian beach. On February 23, 1965, also in South America, the head of the Riga ghetto, Herbert Cukurs, was killed.
