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The principal of the Hebron Boys' Elementary School o nOctober 7, 2023 has since moved on to be the principal of a different ...

The incredible details of the cat-and-mouse game between war criminal Adolf Eichmann and those who spent years chasing him seem like they could be ripped from the pages of a Hollywood script. The ...

Twice each week, armed guards escort Pastor William Lovell Hull of Jerusalem’s nondenominational Zion Christian Mission into the maximum security cellblock of Israel’s Ramla prison. As he enters, a ...

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, one of the key architects of the Holocaust, was captured by ...

Today (Monday) marks the 65th anniversary of the capture of Adolf Eichmann by Mossad agents. Former Mossad operative and curator of the Mossad exhibitions, Avner Avraham, spoke with us about the ...

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The trial of notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann was held from April 11 to August 15, 1961, at Jerusalem’s Beit Ha’am, then a recently completed theater temporarily reconfigured to serve as a courtroom ...

Fifty years after her death, the German-born political thinker has been enshrined as a prophet for our times. What did she actually say? By Jennifer Szalai Robert Jay Lifton changed how I think about ...

According to the chief prosecutor, Gideon Hausner, the hearing against Eichmann was not only the trial of the century, as some were calling it, but perhaps the greatest trial in history. “No other ...