TEL AVIV, November 28. /TASS/. Shalom Nagar, who executed notorious Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in 1962, died in Israel at the age of 86, The Jerusalem Post reported.

The Israeli authorities have long kept his name secret.

In 1960, the Mossad carried out a successful operation in Buenos Aires to capture Eichman, one of the key figures of the Holocaust. During a trial in Jerusalem, he was found guilty of crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against humanity and sentenced to death.

Death penalty exists in Israel de jure, but is almost never performed in practice. Throughout the entire history of Israel, capital punishment has only been carried out twice. The second execution was of officer Meir Tobianski, falsely accused of high treason during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, but later posthumously exonerated.