Background
Bach is the son of Victor Bach, who was the general manager of the Hirsch copper and brass factory, and his wife Erna (b Benscher) Bach. He grew up in Berlin-Charlottenburg and attended Theodore Herzl School.
Bach is the son of Victor Bach, who was the general manager of the Hirsch copper and brass factory, and his wife Erna (b Benscher) Bach. He grew up in Berlin-Charlottenburg and attended Theodore Herzl School.
After the Second World War Bach studied law at University College London and in 1949 graduated with honours.
In October 1938 the Bach family emigrated from Nazi Germany to Amsterdam, where he continued to attend school. He is the only survivor of his Jewish classmates from this school. In 1940, a month before the invasion of the Netherlands by the German army, the family booked a passage to British Mandate Palestine and settled in Jerusalem.
He commenced his career as a prosecutor in 1953.
In 1961 he was appointed as Deputy Attorney General and as the second of the three prosecutors in the Eichmann trial - an event which changed his life. In 1969, he was appointed as the State Attorney.
In 1982 he was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Israel and retired in 1997. In 1984 he served as the precedent-breaking Chairman of the Central Elections Committee.
He was subsequently appointed as the chairman of several senior government committees and fact finding commissions.
He subsequently represented Israel at international conferences. Genocide trials in Israel, in: Jacob Doctorate. Fuchs Berger (ed): The Nuremberg Trials. International criminal law since 1945.
International Conference on the 60th Anniversary - The Nuremberg Trials: International Criminal Law Since 1945.
60th Anniversary International Conference. Knight of the Order of the Garter Saur, Munich 2005 Bilingual.
Post: pp. 216–223, in English, German summary Gabriel Bach, The Prosecutor and the Eichmann trial by Wolfgang Schoen and Frank Gutermuth, television Schoen film Doctorate 2010 television Schoen.