Jerusalem:
The man who hanged Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Shalom Nagar in 1962 has died, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.
Adolf Eichmann, one of the main architects of the 'Final Solution' aimed at exterminating Europe's Jews, was tried by an Israeli court in April 1961 after being kidnapped from Argentina.
He was hanged in Ramleh Prison near Tel Aviv on May 31, 1962, the only person ever executed in Israel.
Nagar was a prison employee at the time and chose to hang Eichmann.
Eichmann, 55 at the time of his trial, had organized the logistics of the Final Solution, which sent some six million Jews to their deaths during World War II.
Born in Yemen, Nagar moved to Israel in 1948 and became religious after leaving prison.
In 2011, a documentary was made about Nagar.
“I had nightmares because of him for a year,” he said in Eichmann's film.
According to media reports, he lived in the Kiryat Arba settlement in the occupied West Bank.
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