At Mitzpe Shalem, it’s around NIS 50,000 ($14,160) per person, Nagar noted, while at kibbutzim in the Gaza periphery, membership starts at NIS 30,000 ($8,500) per family.

Shalom Nagar, who has died aged 88, was one of the Israeli prison officers assigned to guard the Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann and was the one chosen to execute him at midnight on May 31 1962 in ...

“Shalom, Mahmoud,” about the detention of a Palestinian protest leader by immigration authorities. Linguists know well that words often change meaning as they diffuse from one group to another.

President Donald Trump’s ultimatum to Hamas came in the form of a Hebrew word as ancient as it is universal. “‘Shalom Hamas’ means Hello and Goodbye — you can choose,” Trump wrote ...

Shalom Nagar was the prison guard chosen by lottery, against his will, to pull the lever that killed Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann on the gallows. For decades, Nagar lived out the trauma and guilt of ...

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The past clings to Hirayama, as it did with Shalom Nagar, who died last month. One of Adolf Eichmann’s prison guards, Nagar also became his reluctant hangman after being chosen by lottery to pull the ...

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 ...

Shalom Nagar, ‘The Hangman’ Who Executed Adolf Eichmann, Dies at 89 A former member of the Israel Defense Forces, he eventually saw it as a virtuous act. But he was haunted by it for many years.

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 ...

Lives Lived: Shalom Nagar was a reluctant 23-year-old Israeli prison guard when he was chosen to hang Adolf Eichmann — the fugitive Nazi war criminal convicted of genocide.

Israeli prison officer Shalom Nagar, who has died aged 88, was assigned to guard the Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann, ensuring that he didn’t smuggle poison into his cell prior to his 1962 hanging.