Retired Judge Moshe Landau, Israel’s fifth Supreme Court president and the presiding judge in the trial of Adolf Eichmann, passed away in Jerusalem on Sunday at the age of 99.

Landau died of a cardiac arrest on the eve of the Holocaust Remembrance Day. Several years ago he signed a Do Not Resuscitate form.

Landau was born in Danzig, Poland in 1912. He studied law in the University of London in the early 1930s and made aliyah in 1933. In 1937 he was admitted to the Bar of Palestine and was later appointed a judge at the Haifa Magistrate’s Court.

In 1948 he was made judge in the city’s district court. In 1953, at the age of 41, Landau was appointed a Supreme Court judge. He famously presided over the Eichmann Trial in 1961. He retired in 1982 after a two-year stint as President of the Supreme Court.

(Source: Ynet)