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.

 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

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

 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


Foundations of Holocaust: American eugenics and the Nazi connection

The Jerusalem Post

The architect of mass murder

Dec 15 marks the day in which Eichmann was sentenced to death in a landmark case that changed int’l law.

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This Week In History: Eichmann sentenced to death

In December 1961, Jerusalem court handed down first and only death sentence in Israel's history.

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50 years on, Eichmann on display at the UN

Prominently displayed in the UN’s visitor’s lobby, photographs, news clippings and works of art document the story of the Nazi leader

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How we captured Adolf Eichmann

50 years after the Nazi was hanged, Beit Hatfutsot is offering an insider’s look at how the operation was planned and conducted.

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To the victor belong the spoils?

Losing the wars hasn’t stopped the Palestinians from calling the shots.

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Eichmann’s glass booth installed in Knesset exhibit

Parliament opens new exhibit commemorating 50 years since Adolf Eichmann’s trial.

Exhibit commemorating 50 years since Eichmann’s trial

May 9: Remembering them

Over the years, Rabbi Weiss has touched my heart many times with his thoughts and musings on the ways of our world and of Israel.

The Jerusalem Post

Moshe Landau, judge at Eichmann trial, dies at 99

German-born Israel Prize laureate served on Agranat Commission that probed failures of Yom Kippur War.

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Out of Europe: The six torch lighters

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