Efraim Elrom

Efraim Elrom was born in 1911 in Ivano-Frankivsk

Efraim Elrom, born Hofstadter, was born in Stanislawow, Poland, to Eliyahu and Rivka Hofstadter. As a youth he met Elsa Bibring in the Maccabi Hatzair movement, and they became a couple. He studied at an engineering college in Poland.

In 1933 he moved to the Land of Israel and served as a guard in the orchards of Hadera. In 1935 he joined the Mandate police and also the Haganah.

In the Israel Police he headed the criminal department at national headquarters and investigated cases such as the murder of Rachel Levin and the suspects in the murder of Israel Kastner. In 1957 Mossad head Isser Harel recruited him to help locate Adolf Eichmann, and after the capture he served as deputy head of Bureau 06, which investigated Eichmann. He later headed the economic investigations department and, from 1966, the investigations department.

In August 1969 he became consul general in Istanbul, Turkey. On 17 May 1971 four members of the People's Liberation Army of Turkey seized him at his home in Istanbul. He was murdered by the group.