Asher Ben-Natan Asher Ben-Natan Asher Ben-Natan (February 15, 1921 – June 17, 2014) was an Israeli diplomat and a key figure in the country's defense and diplomacy fields. Ben-Natan led the search for Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who was captured in 1960. He became the Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Defense from 1959 until 1965. Ben-Natan then served as the first Israeli Ambassador to Germany (then West Germany) from August 1965 until 1970. Ben-Natan was then appointed as Israel's Ambassador to France from 1970 until his retirement in 1974. Asher Ben-Natan was born Arthur Piernikartz in Vienna, Austria, on
Natan Sharansky dissident movement, and in 2008 he was featured in Laura Bialis' documentary "Refusenik". In 2014, he took part in Natella Boltyanskaya's documentary "Parallels, Events, People". He was number eleven on the list of "Time" magazine's 100 most influential people of 2005 in the "Scientists and thinkers" category. Sharansky is the author of three books. The first is the autobiographical "Fear No Evil", which dealt with his trial and imprisonment. His second book, "The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror" was co-written with Ron Dermer. George W. Bush offered praise for the book: If you