Gideon Max Hausner (Hebrew: גדעון מקס האוזנר, 26 September 1915 – 15 November 1990) was an Israeli jurist and politician.
Hausner is most widely known for heading the team of prosecutors at the war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961.
Hausner is generally credited with exposing the Holocaust to the world in bold cross-examinations of Eichmann, but was criticized for showmanship.
[2] He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from Poland in 1927, when his father took the post of Economic Advisor to the Polish Government, first in Haifa and later in Tel Aviv.
Streets were named after him in Jerusalem, Kiryat Motzkin, Rehovot, Be'er Sheva and in the Galil-Yam neighborhood in Herzliya.