Rafael Eitan, 75; Former Israeli Army General and Hard-Line Political Leader
LA Times
JERUSALEM Rafael Eitan, a blunt former Israeli army chief and Cabinet minister who opposed any compromise with the Palestinians, drowned Tuesday after being swept into the stormy Mediterranean Sea while inspecting equipment at a construction site. He was 75. Eitan was working for a construction company expanding the southern Israeli port of Ashdod when he was swept off a breakwater, port officials said. Eitan was on the breakwater to check whether equipment had been damaged in a storm.
