Adolf Eichmann

The last living Eichmann trial reporter warns antisemitism never died

He watched Eichmann face justice, now he’s one of the last who can tell it

|ByLARA SUKSTER MOSHEYOF
The Eichmann trail was held in Jerusalem, Israel, from April 11 to August 14, 1961. Premium
A woman holds a sign reading "Stop Hunting Jews" during a demonstration against antisemitism following a rise in anti-Jewish incidents after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks.

Confronting the oldest hatred in its newest forms - from the editor

As antisemitism rises across the globe, this edition examines its many forms and the fight to confront them

|ByRUTH MARKS EGLASH
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
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

How Nazi scientists were welcomed around the world after the Holocaust

Ariel Gelblung, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Buenos Aires, speaks about the ways in which Nazi scientists, doctors, engineers, and technicians were able to find safe havens.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023ByDEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE
Dr. Wernher von Braun

Journalist and scholar Aharon Ariel, veteran of the war of independence, died at 97

Aharon Ariel worked as a journalist whose assignments, according to his granddaughter, included the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.

JULY 19, 2023ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
Israeli fighters seen welcoming the first Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion

A Zionist Omer: Significant days in Israeli history

A proposal for a Zionist counting of the Omer, a purposeful reflection on the significance of just a few of the anniversaries, commemorations, and celebrations in the weeks ahead.

APRIL 11, 2023ByDAVID BREAKSTONE
A CELEBRATION of Yom Yerushalayim.

Nazis, disease, bombs, refugees: Ruth Sitton's journey to Israel

The astonishing journey of compassion of Ruth Sitton: The Nazi Adolf Eichmann helped her and her father come to Mandatory Palestine, though bombs and disease got in the way.

MARCH 31, 2023ByPATRICIA GOLAN
Sitton’s family before the Holocaust. She is on her father’s lap.

Capital punishment for terrorists: Theoretically defensible but not wise - opinion

Throughout Israel's history, only one person has ever been executed by the Israeli judicial system - Adolf Eichmann.

FEBRUARY 22, 2023ByERIC S. SHERBY
SUPPORTERS OF Hamas and Islamic Jihad take part in a rally to celebrate the shooting attack at the Ilka Bar in Tel Aviv, in the southern Gaza Strip, last April

Grapevine: Standing with six million

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

FEBRUARY 3, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Adolf Eichmann during his trial in Jerusalem.

Israeli docuseries with never-before-heard confessions from Adolf Eichmann comes to Amazon Prime

“The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes” is a three-part documentary series that combines interviews about Eichmann, whom Israel executed in 1962

FEBRUARY 1, 2023ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
NAZI WAR criminal Adolf Eichmann sits at a desk inside his prison cell in Israel, 1961. To mark the 60th anniversary of his execution, KAN 11 aired a new series that brings to light important documentation of Eichmann’s admission of his guilt.

Israeli Mossad spymaster Rafi Eitan reveals his exploits - review

Mossad operative Rafi Eitan’s wild exploits and constantly changing views make pigeonholing him impossible.

DECEMBER 23, 2022ByCOLIN SCHINDLER
ADOLF EICHMANN’S false Red Cross identitity document, used to enter Argentina under the alias Ricardo Klement in 1950.

Holocaust denial spreading in the US -opinion

There has been interest by a still small number of academically educated, intellectual and political figures willing to participate in Holocaust “revisionism.”

DECEMBER 4, 2022ByDANIEL S. GROSS
NAZI WAR criminal Adolf Eichmann sits at a desk inside his prison cell in Israel, 1961. To mark the 60th anniversary of his execution, KAN 11 aired a new series that brings to light important documentation of Eichmann’s admission of his guilt.

The long-lost Adolf Eichmann recordings shown in new documentary

"I am 100% convinced Eichmann had no mercy for anyone... he was a sworn Nazi through and through."

JUNE 17, 2022ByDUDI PATIMER
THE DEVIL speaks: ‘The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes.’