Shalom Nagar, the man who hanged Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Israel in 1962, has died in his late 80s. Nagar, a prison guard at the facility where Eichmann was kept, was chosen for the task and did not volunteer.

He came to public attention following an accidental mention by a local radio channel doing a programme on the Nazi fugitive responsible for carrying out the “final solution to the Jewish question” which led to the mass deportation and death of six million Jews during World War II.

Nagar, born in Yemen, moved to Israel as an orphan in 1948, when he was only 12 years old. After serving in the Army, he joined the Israeli prison service, where he was chosen as Eichmann's personal guard during the six months he spent in Ramle prison in 1962.

Shalom Nagar, the Israeli prison guard who carried out the 1962 execution of Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust, has passed away at the age of 86. Nagar was assigned to hang Eichmann,