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Jacob Breuer

Field	Value
name	Yaakov Bar-Or
image	Yaakov Bar-Or at Eichmann trial1961.jpg
image_size	200px
caption	Yaakov Bar-Or at the trial of Adolf Eichmann
native_name	יעקב בר-אור
birth_name	Jacob Breuer
birth_date	1916
birth_place	Germany
death_date	2008
death_place	Jerusalem, Israel
resting_place	Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery, Jerusalem
nationality	Israeli
native_name_lang	he
other_names	Jacob Breuer
occupation	Lawyer, Prosecutor
education	Law (Germany)
employer	Israeli Government
known_for	Assistant prosecutor at the Adolf Eichmann trial
notable_works	Eichmann in Jerusalem
title	District Attorney General
term	1959–1961
family	Isaac Breuer (father)

Yaakov Bar-Or () was born as Jacob Breuer to Jenny and Isaac Breuer in 1916. He studied law in Germany and became a successful attorney. Later, he moved to Israel and assumed the surname "Bar-Or". He dropped the name change later in life.

Breuer came to Israel in the 1930s and became a lawyer in 1943. In 1959, he was appointed District Attorney General in Tel Aviv. That same year he was appointed Israeli delegate to the United Nations and sat on the committee for human rights. In 1961 Breuer was assistant prosecutor in the trial of Adolf Eichmann. This was the only execution and execution trial in the history of the state of Israel.

He died in 2008 in Jerusalem at the age of 92.

References

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt (1996) Penguin Classics
nizkor.org

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