As Israel’s attorney general from 1960 to 1963, Poland-born Hausner successfully prosecuted Adolf Eichmann in 1961 for his crimes against humanity and the Jewish people during the Holocaust. Hausner persuaded the court to sentence Eichmann to death, the only capital sentence in Israel’s history, because the Nazi “had no mercy in his heart.” Hausner also served four terms in the Knesset. He moved to the Land of Israel with his family in 1927.