A Hamburg court passed a life sentence today on Otto Tuchel, 63, a former Nazi police officer found guilty of murder and abetting the murder of Jews in the Riga ghetto between 1941-42. Another police officer, Friedrich Jahnke, 62, was sentenced to three years in jail for abetting murder. Two others, Emil Didrich, 59 and Max Neumann, 60, were found guilty on the same charges but were freed on grounds that they acted under orders. About 25,000 German and Latvian Jews were shot in the Riga ghetto.
Zeev Bashan has been named Israel’s first Ambassador to Haiti. He is expected to take up his duties shortly. Haiti has an Embassy in Jerusalem.
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