An Israeli lawmaker drew fire for likening police crackdowns on settler supporters to Nazi tactics. “Perhaps it was for nothing that we killed Eichmann,” Zvi Hendel of the National Union bloc said Monday in a Knesset speech, referring to the Nazi mastermind executed by Israel.
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