An Israeli judge with a distinguished career including the prosecution of one of the world's most famous Nazis has passed away aged 94.

Gabriel Bach, who himself was born in Germany, was part of the legal team that tried Adolf Eichmann for crimes against humanity in Jerusalem in 1961.

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Prosecutor Gavriel Bach at Eichman's trial in Jerusalem in 1961 (National Photo archive of Israel)

Bach's role on the prosecution team was as a state’s attorney who compiled evidence for the trial that led to Eichmann being hanged in June 1962. Eichmann's trial lasted several months and ended in him being convicted on all 15 counts and sentenced to death.

After an unsuccessful appeal to the country's Supreme Court, he was executed in Ramla prison on 31 May 1962.

Prior to his role in the Eichmann trial, Bach emigrated from Germany to Jerusalem in 1938, studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University college London, where he graduated in 1949.

He began working as a public prosecutor in 1953, before being appointed Deputy Attorney General of the State of Israel. Bach was later appointed to Israel's Supreme Court in 1982 before retiring in 1997.