Gabriel Bach

Gabriel Bach (Hebrew: גבריאל בך; 13 March 1927 – 18 February 2022) was a German-born Israeli jurist, who was a judge of the Supreme Court of Israel and was the deputy prosecutor in the prosecution of Adolf Eichmann.

In October 1938 the Bach family emigrated from Nazi Germany to Amsterdam, where he continued to attend school.

In 1940, a month before the invasion of the Netherlands by the German army, the family booked a passage to Mandatory Palestine and settled in Jerusalem.

[1] Eulogizing Bach, Professor Dina Porat wrote:[2]Gaby was known for his liberal views and for his spirited defense of the rights of the accused.

Examples of this include the mitigation of the sentence of Carmela Bohbut, who killed her abusive husband; the defense of Mordechai Rahamim, an El Al security guard who shot and killed terrorists in Zurich; the arrest of Rabbi Meir Kahane and the restrictions imposed upon him; and the trial of Michael Rohan, who attempted to set the al-Aqsa Mosque ablaze.