10 Facts About Gideon Hausner

Gideon Max Hausner was an Israeli jurist and politician.

Gideon Hausner is generally credited with exposing the Holocaust to the world in bold cross-examinations of Eichmann, but was criticized for showmanship.

Gideon Hausner was born in Lemberg, then the capital of Galicia, a province of Austria-Hungary, to Polish-Jewish economist rabbi and Zionist Bernard Gideon Hausner, who was later member of the Polish Sejm.

Gideon Hausner immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from Poland in 1927, when his father took the post of Economic Advisor to the Polish Government, first in Haifa and later in Tel Aviv.

Gideon Hausner attended high school in Tel Aviv, before studying philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and then law at the Jerusalem Law School.

Gideon Hausner was a member of the Haganah, and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, he served in the Etzioni Brigade.

Gideon Hausner was elected to the Knesset in 1965 as a member of the Independent Liberals, having previously been active in the Progressive Party.

Gideon Hausner was re-elected in 1969 and 1973, and resigned from the Knesset upon being appointed a Minister without Portfolio in 1974 as part of Golda Meir's cabinet.

Gideon Hausner was the chairman of the council of Yad Vashem.

Gideon Hausner was married to Judith; they had two children: Tamar, and Amos.