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Peter Malkin was an Israeli secret agent. Born Zvi Malchin in British Palestine, he spent his early childhood in Zolkiewka, Poland. In 1936, his family returned to Palestine to escape the rising tide of anti-Semitism; his sister, Fruma, and her three children who remained behind with 150 other relatives, died in the Holocaust.
At the age of 12, Malkin was recruited into the Palestine Jewish underground. Later, he was invited to join the new Jewish state's fledgling security service as an explosives expert.
Malkin spent 27 years in the Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service, first as an agent and later as Chief of Operations. As Chief of Operations he took a lead role in Israel's most celebrated intelligence coups and later covert operations.
On May 11, 1960, he and several other Mossad agents physically captured Adolf Eichmann, a high-ranking official in Nazi Germany, and a member of the SS (Schutzstaffel), in Argentina.
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