Changing legal perceptions of "Nazi collaborators" in Israel, 1950-1972

Examines public attitudes and political debates that surrounded the legislation of Israel's Nazis and Nazi Collaborators(Punishment) Law of 1950 and traces a number of cases that illustrate how Israeli courts applied the law in the 1950s and 1960s. Porat points to changes in the application of the law over the course of time, from a harsh reading in the early years to a more lenient approach to collaboration in the wake of the Eichmann trial, leading to an end to collaborator trials in Israeli courts by the 1970s