ABSTRACT
The founders of the state felt it their duty to cancel (in retrospect) the helpless situation of the Jews in Europe and Mandatory Palestine during the Second World War in the face of Nazi Germany’s mechanism for the annihilation of the Jewish People.1 In 1950, therefore, two laws were passed affirming the state’s commitment to take steps to punish those responsible for the massacre of six million Jews: legislation for bringing Nazis to trial-1950, and legislation for the prevention of and punishment for the crime of genocide-1950. Apart from this, information was gathered about the leaders of the Nazi regime who had managed to find asylum in various countries and Israeli intelligence began to track them down.
