Eitan, son of Yehuda and Chaya Karpel, was born in 1947 in Haifa. In July 1965 he was drafted into the IDF and he was in compulsory service. The Six-Day War broke out, and when a battle took place in Jenin on the second day of the battles, on the 27th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), Eitan was hit by a cannonball. He was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Haifa.