Former Prison Services officer Shalom Nagar, the executioner tasked with hanging Nazi Adolf Eichmann, has died at the age of 83.
Nagar served as Eichmann’s prison guard and was later chosen to execute him. For six months, Nagar stayed in the same cell, even tasting Eichmann’s food to make sure he would not be poisoned. At Eichmann’s execution, he was the only guard who didn’t want to pull the lever. Ordered to do so, he said that he suffered from nightmares after the execution and eventually became religious and was one of the founders of Kiryat Arba, serving as a shochet and then studying in Kollel for many years.
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