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 ...
A ceasefire is an agreed-upon temporary cessation of hostilities, allowing for negotiation and the delivery of humanitarian aid. It has no legal definition under international law. As Israel and Hamas ...
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 ...