# Jacob Breuer

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**Yaakov Bar-Or** (Hebrew: יעקב בר-אור) was born as **Jacob Breuer** to Jenny and [Isaac Breuer](/source/Isaac_Breuer) in 1916. He studied law in [Germany](/source/Germany) and became a successful attorney. Later, he moved to [Israel](/source/Israel) and assumed the surname "Bar-Or". He dropped the name change later in life.

Breuer came to [Israel](/source/Israel) in the 1930s and became a lawyer in 1943. In 1959, he was appointed [District](/source/District) [Attorney General](/source/Attorney_General) in [Tel Aviv](/source/Tel_Aviv). That same year he was appointed Israeli delegate to the [United Nations](/source/United_Nations) and sat on the committee for human rights[clarification needed]. In 1961 Breuer was assistant prosecutor in the trial of [Adolf Eichmann](/source/Adolf_Eichmann). This was the only execution and execution trial in the history of the state of [Israel](/source/Israel).

He died in 2008 in [Jerusalem](/source/Jerusalem) at the age of 92.

His brother was the historian, [Mordechai Breuer](/source/Mordechai_Breuer_(historian)). His sisters were [Ursula Merkin](/source/Ursula_Merkin) and Tzippora Breuer Schneller. His niece, Michael Schneller Luplianski was married to Jerusalem Mayor [Uri Lupolianski](/source/Uri_Lupolianski).

## References

- *[Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil](/source/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem)* by [Hannah Arendt](/source/Hannah_Arendt) (1996) Penguin Classics
- [nizkor.org](http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts)

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