Adolf Eichmann

On this day: Adolf Eichmann captured in Argentina by Mossad

Eichmann was hanged at midnight on June 1, 1962; he was the only person in Israel’s history to be executed by the state.

|ByARIELA OHRENSTEIN
Adolf Eichmann, pictured in 1941/1942, in his SS uniform. Eichmann fled to Argentina in 1950 before being captured by the Mossad in 1960.
A VOTE on the death penalty for terrorists who murder Israeli civilians at the auditorium in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, March 30, 2026.

Israel's new death penalty law marks moral break, sparks discrimination fears, expert says

For Prof. Yoram Rabin, a criminal and constitutional law scholar and president of the College of Management Academic Studies, the law is both a moral rupture and a legally vulnerable one.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Israeli police flank Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS colonel who headed the Gestapo's Jewish Section and was responsible for millions of Jews' deaths in Nazi concentration camps, as he stands trial inside a bulletproof booth in a Jerusalem court

Grapevine: Ringing hollow

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Adolf Eichmann, pictured in 1941/1942, in his SS uniform. Eichmann fled to Argentina in 1950 before being captured by the Mossad in 1960.

On this day: Adolf Eichmann captured in Argentina by Mossad

Eichmann was hanged at midnight on June 1, 1962; he was the only person in Israel’s history to be executed by the state.

|ByARIELA OHRENSTEIN

Ben Kingsley to play Adolf Eichmann

Upcoming film tells story of the hunt and capture of Nazi war criminal.

JUNE 19, 2017ByAMY SPIRO
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Honoring outstanding contributions

Former Supreme Court Justice and founding EMET prize committee chair Gabriel Bach recalls his involvement in historic Eichmann and Demjanjuk trials.

MAY 14, 2017ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Former Supreme Court Justice Gabriel Bach

'Jewish students being attacked on US campuses need Israel's help'

Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Avi Dichter suggested that the activists have become more aggressive because the Palestinian issue is less prominent lately.

AUGUST 16, 2016ByLAHAV HARKOV
Jewish groups at UC Berkeley campus rally against anti-Israeli events

WATCH: Hitler tells Conan O'brien he hates Trump comparison

"Hitler, thank you so much for stopping by tonight, and might I add, you're the worst," is how Conan O'brien welcomed the Fuhrer to his show.

MARCH 11, 2016ByJPOST.COM STAFF
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Afraid that no one would believe them

President Reuven Rivlin said, “The Eichmann trial broke the conspiracy of silence.”

JANUARY 28, 2016ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Israeli police flank Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS colonel who headed the Gestapo's Jewish Section and was responsible for millions of Jews' deaths in Nazi concentration camps, as he stands trial inside a bulletproof booth in a Jerusalem court

German court blocks release of secret Eichmann files

Classified documents reportedly reveal West Germany intelligence knew Eichmann was in Argentina as early as 1952.

JUNE 28, 2013ByJPOST.COM STAFF
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Defending the banality theory

The Hannah Arendt movie explores the notion that great evil can be caused by ordinary people who choose to follow orders blindly

JUNE 5, 2013ByRENEE GHERT-ZAND
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Out and About: Top 10 things to do 309448

On Independence Day, take a tour of the Jezreel Valley and learn about the pioneers at The Museum of Pioneer Settlement in Kibbutz Yifat.

APRIL 11, 2013ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The Museum of Pioneer Settlement

Remembering the Shoah

Since its inauguration in 1953, commemoration of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day has changed radically.

APRIL 7, 2013ByJPOST EDITORIAL
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High Court hears appeal from Lebanese terrorist

Mustafa Dirani seeks to sue the state for civil damages; Dirani’s attorney: Even Eichmann would have had the right to sue the state.

JANUARY 30, 2013ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
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