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| Then former Supreme Court Justice Gabriel Bach, centre, speaks with former Israeli intelligence and security |
During the high-profile trial of Eichmann in Jerusalem, Mr Bach served as a state's attorney, working on evidence-gathering in the case under lead prosecutor Gideon Hausner.
Eichmann, one of Nazi Germany's main organisers of the Holocaust, was captured by Israeli Mossad (secret service) agents outside Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1960.
Nazi SS officer Eichmann coordinated the identification, assembly, and transportation of Jewish people from all over occupied Europe to extermination camps in German-occupied Poland.
He was put on trial in Jerusalem in 1961 and found guilty of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and war crimes. He was executed by the Israeli state in 1962.
"If any person deserved death, it was him," Mr Bach said in a 2017 interview with Holocaust remembrance organisation International March of the Living.
The justice was born in Germany in March 1927 and fled the country with his family in 1938, the year before World War Two broke out.
Mr Bach immigrated to British Mandate for Palestine in 1940.
In 1982, he took the bench as a justice on Israel's Supreme Court, where he served for 15 years.
He is being laid to rest at Jerusalem's Har HaMenuchot Cemetery.
Nazi SS officer Eichmann coordinated the identification, assembly, and transportation of Jewish people from all over occupied Europe to extermination camps in German-occupied Poland.
He was put on trial in Jerusalem in 1961 and found guilty of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and war crimes. He was executed by the Israeli state in 1962.
"If any person deserved death, it was him," Mr Bach said in a 2017 interview with Holocaust remembrance organisation International March of the Living.
The justice was born in Germany in March 1927 and fled the country with his family in 1938, the year before World War Two broke out.
Mr Bach immigrated to British Mandate for Palestine in 1940.
In 1982, he took the bench as a justice on Israel's Supreme Court, where he served for 15 years.
He is being laid to rest at Jerusalem's Har HaMenuchot Cemetery.
