A hero to all Jews died today. Peter Malchin, the man that captured Eichmann.

But he earned renown as the agent who in 1960 found Eichmann, the German SS officer responsible for deporting millions of Jews to concentration camps during the Holocaust, living in Argentina. He approached him on a Buenos Aires street, tapping him on the back with the words "one moment, sir" before wrestling him to the ground and bundling him into a getaway car.

Eichmann, who had been living in Argentina under a false identity since fleeing Germany after World War II, was interrogated at a safehouse in Buenos Aires before being smuggled to Israel.

The daring operation, which inspired books and films, led to Eichmann's conviction in a 1961 trial and his hanging in 1962. He remains the only person ever to have been executed in Israel.

Malchin, a martial arts expert, decided to confront Eichmann alone near his home on Garibaldi Street to avoid attracting attention and to ensure he would be brought to Israel "in one piece," Dan said.

"There were six million pairs of eyes on me ... I had to succeed," Malchin later recounted, Dan said.