A street in the eastern German town of Weissenfels, located about 20 miles southwest of Leipzig, has been named for native son Benjamin Halevy, a former Israeli High Court judge and Knesset member.
Halevy, now 81, fled the Nazis in the 1930s.
At the street-naming ceremony, Halevy was honored for his achievements in Israel. The ceremony was attended by students from a high school in Ra’anana, Israel, who happened to be in Germany for a youth exchange program. It was one of the very first Israeli groups to visit the former area of East Germany.
Halevy became well known here when he served on the panel of judges in 1951 that tried Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi war criminal who was sentenced to death and hanged in Israel.
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