He was the hangman chosen to carry out the sentence on the fugitive Nazi war criminal, in Israel’s only case of capital punishment. By Sam Roberts Shalom Nagar, who was a reluctant 23-year-old Israeli ...

At midnight on May 31st 1962, Shalom Nagar looked his prisoner in the eye. They stood perhaps a metre apart, in a room on the second floor of Ramla prison in central Israel. Adolf Eichmann was tied at ...

TEL AVIV, November 28. /TASS/. Shalom Nagar, who executed notorious Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in 1962, died in Israel at the age of 86, The Jerusalem Post reported. The Israeli authorities have ...

Israel’s parliament approved a special military tribunal for hundreds of Palestinians accused of taking part in the attacks ...

Israel's national archives announced Monday they were granting public access online to hundreds of thousands of documents from the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, one of the main organisers ...

A wooden chair inside a bullet-proof booth where Adolph Eichmann sat in during his trial in 1961 is part of the display in the "Operation Finale" exhibit at Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish ...

Shalom Nagar, who was a reluctant 23-year-old Israeli prison guard when he was chosen to hang Adolf Eichmann -- the fugitive Nazi war criminal convicted of crimes against humanity and genocide, in the ...