Hadassa Ben-Itto

Hadassa Ben- Itto ( born May 16, 1926 in Poland) is an Israeli lawyer, diplomat and author.

Ben- Itto was born in Poland and immigrated to Israel. She took 1948 as the officer at the War of Independence in part. She studied law in the United States and the United Kingdom. From 1960, she spent 31 years Israeli occupation Judge, including the Supreme Court, and taught criminal law at Bar- Ilan University.

Ben- Itto was twice a member of the Israeli delegation to the UN General Assembly in New York and represented Israel at the 1982 UNESCO Conference on Human Rights in Paris. Since 1988 she has been President of the " International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists ". She won the Zeltner Prize, an award for lawyers of the State of Israel, was honored in 1999.

Published in 1991 Ben- Itto her book " The Lie That Would not Die: The Protocols of the Elder of Zion " on the origin and spread of the so-called Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It has been translated into nine languages ​​and appeared in a poor German text version without scientific claim and apparatus under the title: "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Anatomy of a forgery " ( Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin, 1998; ibid paperback edition 2001). The author based this on their ceded protocols of trials in Bern and South Africa (both 1934).

In Germany, one reviewer criticized in 1998 that the author use literary style means and drew from his opinion, outdated research of historian Norman Cohn.