Adolf Eichmann

The forgotten German who saved Jews in Japan - and the diary that resurfaced 80 years later

A child’s wartime diary has reopened the story of Willy Rudolf Foerster, a German industrialist who helped Jewish refugees reach Japan.

Willy Rudolf Foerster with his children,  Willy Jr. and Erica.
The Eichmann trail was held in Jerusalem, Israel, from April 11 to August 14, 1961. PremiumPremium

The last living Eichmann trial reporter warns antisemitism never died

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

 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


Olmert to honor Rafi Eitan at TLV event

Former Mossad agent Avner Avraham to share new details of Eichmann capture

Avner Avraham at the opening of the Operation Finale exhibit in the Museum of Jewish Heritage in 2017.

Book review: A cold and divided capital

Zvi Jagendorf’s latest novel takes readers on a journey through the hearts and streets of Jerusalem in 1961.

A view of Jerusalem’s Old City in the late 1950s

Eichmann prosecutor: Eyewitness testimony from within the gas chambers

Because of the extraordinary circumstances, the survivor was an otherwise impossible-to-obtain eyewitness actually from within the Auschwitz gas chambers.

Gabriel Bach, former Supreme Court justice and chief investigator and co-prosecutor of the 1961 Eichmann trial.

Eichmann prosecutor discusses trial, modern extremism

Justice Gabriel Bach was born in Germany before coming to Palestine. He served as one of three prosecutors in the in trail of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.

Adolf Eichmann sits during his trial in Jerusalem, 1961.

Khashoggi’s death was an ‘Operation Eichmann’ Gone Bad

According to sources, Khashoggi was not choked, but stopped breathing after he was drugged to get him from Turkey back to his home country.

Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in his palace in Saudia Arabia

A noble gesture

Wiesel wanted to cover the Adolf Eichmann trial, but the editor felt that as an Auschwitz survivor, the trial would be too personal for him and he would not be able to write with objectivity.

Elie Wiesel making a speech

‘Operation Finale’ retells the Eichmann kidnapping for a new generation

This fact-based story is a carefully executed retelling of the Israeli operation to catch Eichmann in Buenos Aires.

A scene from 'Operation Finale' starring Ben Kingsley as Adolf Eichmann

New Eichmann film puts the lie to Hannah Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’

It was not necessary for Hannah Arendt to actually observe and listen to Eichmann because to do so would undercut her thesis.

A scene from 'Operation Finale' starring Ben Kingsley as Adolf Eichmann

Stranger than fiction

‘Operation Finale’ is a color-by-numbers post-WWII political thriller

‘Operation Finale’ is a color-by-numbers post-WWII political thriller

Ben Kingsley: I carried a photo of Elie Wiesel on 'Operation Finale' set

Actor Nick Kroll said the film about the capture of Adolf Eichmann was a victory story 'rife with questions of morality.'

A scene from 'Operation Finale' starring Ben Kingsley as Adolf Eichmann