Eichmann trial judge, Moshe Landau, dies at 99

Justice Moshe Landau, the fifth president of the Supreme Court, who presided in the trial of Adolf Eichmann, died yesterday in Jerusalem. He was 99.

While on the Supreme Court bench Landau also investigated the lapses of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, as a member of the Agranat Commission, and chaired the state panel that investigated and revised the interrogation methods employed by the Shin Bet security service.

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