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Malchiel Gruenwald (Hebrew: מלכיאל גרינוולד; also written Grünwald, Gruenvald, and Greenwald) (1882–1968) was an Israeli hotelier, amateur journalist, and stamp collector, who came to public attention in 1953, when he accused an Israeli government employee, Rudolf Kastner, of having collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Malchiel Gruenwald, commonly known as the Kastner trial, was a libel case in Jerusalem, Israel. Hearings were held from 1 January to October 1954 in the District Court of Jerusalem before Judge Benjamin Halevi (1910–1996), who published his decision on 22 June 1955.
The Kastner trial started as a fairly open-and-shut libel case: an elderly Hungarian Jew named Malchiel Gruenwald accused Israel Rudolf Kastner – the spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry – of being a Nazi collaborator.
One day, in 1953, a person named Malchiel Gruenwald saw Kastner on the street in Tel Aviv and from then on took up a tremendous campaign of vilification against Kastner. Finally, Kastner had no recourse but to sue Gruenwald for libel.
Oct 29, 2014 · The affair began in 1952, after a Jerusalem hotelier by the name of Malchiel Gruenwald launched an attack on members of the pre-state leadership and their silence during the Holocaust.
Apr 23, 2015 · Attorney General Haim Cohen had indicted Mr. Malchiel Gruenwald, an elderly Hungarian Jew, for libel. Gruenwald, an extreme right-wing Zionist Revisionist and self-styled journalist, wrote and distributed political pamphlets.
Jan 15, 2024 · In 1952, Malchiel Gruenwald, a 70 year old Hungarian Jew who was living in Jerusalem, published a pamphlet accusing Kastner of collaborating with the Nazis after spotting him in the street. Since Kastner was a government official, Gruenwald was put on trial for libel.
