flew to Nuremberg to save a mass murderer of Jews. What induced you to do that? What kind of gentleman's agreement was there between this murderer Becher and this man who I accuse as a collaborator with the Nazis? And it is this same Kastner that Mapai has taken to its bosom and place high on its list of officials. My God! Kastner's deeds in Budapest cost us the lives of hundreds of thousands of Jews! We demand an impartial public committee of investigation. Kastner must be removed from the politics and from the society of this land. We shall keep this on our agenda until the evil is ended. Gruenwald concluded his charges as follows: He wanted to save himself, so that Becher would not reveal to international court their deals and their joint acts of robbery... Where now is the money of the Jews of Hungary, millions for which no accounting is given... He saved no fewer than fifty-two of his relatives, and hundreds of other Jews—most of whom had converted to Christianity—bought their rescue from Kastner by paying millions! That's how Kastner saved the members of Mapai... He saved people with connections, made a fortune in the process. But thousands of senior Zionists, members of the Mizrahi and ultra-religious parties—these, Kastner left in the valley of the shadow of death. The only Israeli newspaper to pay attention to Kastner's charges was Herut. In it, political columnist Yoel Marcus stated that for three years, Hungarian Jews had been claiming that "a man with an official position" had testified for Nazi war criminals, been involved in shady deals, and had made profits "at the expense of operations to rescue Jews". Marcus challenged Kastner to exonerate himself. Kastner's superior, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dov Yoseph, felt that whether Kastner wanted to take action regarding these accusations was purely a personal matter. However, Attorney General Haim Cohen felt that the charges were serious enough that Kastner would either have to resign or attempt to clear his name. In Cohen's words, "in our new, pure, ideal State ... a man cannot officiate in a senior position ... when there is a stain on him, or even only a grave suspicion of collaboration with the Nazis". Feeling he had no choice, Kastner allowed the Israeli government to file a lawsuit on his behalf against Gruenwald. Kastner trial In 1953, Cohen, who