Benjamin Halevi

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Benjamin Halevi, 1969
Halevi at the Eichmann trial (left)

Benjamin Halevi ( Hebrew בנימין הלוי* May 6, 1910 in Weißenfels as Ernst Levi ; † August 7, 1996 ) was a German- Israeli judge and politician .

Life

Halevi studied in Freiburg , Göttingen and Berlin . In 1933 he was at Martin Wolff with magna cum laude doctorate . In the same year Halevi emigrated to Palestine , where he initially in Kibbutz Degania B worked. In 1938 he was appointed magistrate youth in Jerusalem as the first Jewish immigrant from Germany to be appointed by the English mandate government . In 1948 he became president of the Jerusalem District Court and in 1963 a member of the Supreme Court .

In 1955, Halevi chaired the so-called Kasztner proceedings: the former chairman of the Jewish “Committee for Help and Rescue” in Budapest , Rudolf Kasztner , was accused in a newspaper article of collaboration with the National Socialists and complicity in the deaths of many Jews. Kasztner initiated a defamation process. However, Halevi stated in his judgment that Kasztner had "sold his soul to the devil". The decision was later overturned.

In addition to Moshe Landau and Yitzhak Raveh , Halevi was a member of the panel in 1961 that had to decide in the first instance in the proceedings against Adolf Eichmann .

Political career

In 1969 Halevi became a member of the Knesset for the conservative nationalist Cherut . In 1973 he was re-elected for the Likud , in which the Cherut was absorbed. He later left the party and was a non-attached MP. In 1977 he stood for the so-called Dash List, after which he was again an independent Knesset member. Between 1977 and 1981 he also acted as Deputy Speaker of Parliament.

Private

Halevi was married to Michal Halevi. The marriage had two children.

Others

In 1977 Halevi visited Weißenfels privately. Today a street name reminds of him there.

literature

  • Lisa Hauff: The judges in the Eichmann trial. In: Werner Renz (editor): Interests around Eichmann. Israeli justice, German law enforcement and old comradeships. Campus publishing house, Frankfurt a. M. 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39750-4 , pp. 121f.
  • Halevi, Benjamin , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Vol. 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur 1980, p. 266.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Schramm: "... that's why they almost wanted me to be excluded from the Eichmann trial as being> biased <..." vorwaerts.de of April 11, 2011 (accessed on February 1, 2016).
  2. ↑ The trial. In: Der Spiegel . Issue 16/1961 from April 12, 1961.
  3. ↑ www.knesset.gov.il (accessed April 13, 2011).
  4. ↑ www.knesset.gov.il (accessed April 13, 2011).
  5. ↑ Schramm, ibid.
  6. ↑ Frank Hirschinger : Gestapo agents, Trotskyists, traitors. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-36903-4 , p. 381.
  7. ↑ OpenStreetMap Germany: map. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Halevi, Benjamin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Levi, Ernst (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli judge and politician (Cherut)
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1996