Israel Weighs Eichmann-Style Public Trials for Oct. 7 Attackers
- Hundreds of Hamas attackers are being held in Israeli prisons
- Lawyers divided over creating a special military tribunal
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Over four months in 1961, Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann sat in a bulletproof booth in a makeshift Jerusalem courtroom and, with cameras whirring, was tried by the state of Israel for crimes against humanity. Two years later, after failed appeals, he was hanged — the last execution in the country’s history.