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Last Surviving Prosecutor of
Nazis at Nuremberg Dies at 103
Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving
member of the prosecuting team at the
Nuremberg trials that convicted Nazi
ringleaders for crimes against human-
ity, died on April 7 in Florida, JTA.org
reported. He was 103.

Ferencz was 27 and a gradu-
ate of Harvard Law School when he
was named as the chief prosecutor
at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, in which
20 members of the SS mobile death
Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz at the
squads were convicted of war crimes
Einsatzgruppen Trial in Nuremberg,
and crimes against humanity. Two
which lasted from September 1947
others were convicted of membership
until April 1948
in a criminal organization.

Slight and boyish looking, he is seen in newsreel footage of the trials speak-
ing deliberately and passionately in an accent shaped by his upbringing in
Manhattan. “Vengeance is not our goal, nor do we seek merely a just retribution,”
he tells the tribunal. “We ask this court to affi rm by international penal action,
man’s right to live in peace and dignity, regardless of his race or creed. The case
we present is a plea of humanity to law.”
Ferencz went on to play a key role on the team that negotiated the watershed
1952 reparations agreements under which West Germany agreed to pay $822
million to the state of Israel and to groups representing Holocaust survivors.

Ferencz was featured in two recent documentaries about the Holocaust and its
aftermath: Ken Burns’ PBS series, “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” and “Reckonings:
The First Reparations,” a 2022 fi lm funded by the German government.

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KimmelCulturalCampus.org Finland to Become First Foreign Buyer of Israel’s David’s Sling
Aerial Defense System
Finland is set to become the fi rst foreign buyer of Israel’s David’s Sling air defense
system, the country’s defense minister announced on April 5, JNS.org reported.

The deal is worth some $347 million, and includes further options worth $237
million, according to a statement from the Finnish Defense Ministry.

The announcement came one day after the Nordic nation became the 31st
member state of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

David’s Sling, developed by Rafael Advanced Defensive Systems together with
U.S. defense giant Raytheon, is designed to intercept ballistic missiles, UAVs,
enemy planes and other aerial threats.

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Cyberattack Crashes Websites of Several Israeli Universities
A coordinated cyberattack took down the websites of major Israeli universities
on April 4, JNS.org reported.

A hacker group calling itself “Anonymous Sudan” claimed responsibility for the
attack on its Telegram account, stating that the “Israel education sector has been
dropped because of what they did in Palestine.”
Institutions impacted by the attack include Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheva, the
Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, the Open University of Israel and
Reichman University in Herzliya.

“These are service-disrupting attacks — those that only bring down websites
and do not steal information — and can be recovered from relatively easily.

However, it can be assumed that these groups are trying to produce more signif-
icant attacks, including ransom attacks and data theft,” Check Point, an Israeli
cybersecurity fi rm, said in a statement. ■
— Compiled by Andy Gotlieb
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