Newspapers in Israel mark the passing of Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor and Nazi-hunter who was buried in the northern Israeli town of Herzliya, by discussing his legacy.
While some commentators review his life's work and what they regard as his most important achievements, others stress the relevance of the moral values they say he came to represent after World War II.
Meir Gross in Hatzofe
Simon Wiesenthal was not a head of state or a famous intellectual. However, the fact that his name is known all over the world stems from his special occupation. He was a "hunter of Nazis", a term coined by him or because of him. But with his death the idea is not being buried with him. Wiesenthal managed to instil in our consciousness the duty that a criminal must be made to pay for his crime. 
Tom Segev in Haaretz
Simon Wiesenthal worked alone almost his entire life. He spun around him a myth of long arms reaching across the world, but he probably never dispatched his own agents to catch Nazi criminals. The documentation centre that he founded, after his liberation from Mauthausen, was his apartment in Vienna and it mainly consisted of large piles of newspapers and small cardboard file boxes. Still, the myth was important, not only because it encouraged the bringing of criminals to trial but also because it helped make Wiesenthal a symbol, giving moral power to his voice...
His moral stature intensified the struggle against anti-Semitism. Probably no one did more than he in turning the Holocaust from a "Jewish story" into the basis for a universal war against racism in all its forms and for the defence of human rights.
Efraim Zuroff in Jerusalem Post
The word that most obviously comes to mind when discussing Simon Wiesenthal's legacy is justice. Wiesenthal has led the effort not only to track down but to bring to justice Nazi war criminals, and, in the process, has become the embodiment and personification of that lofty cause... Three other issues which Wiesenthal stressed in his campaign for justice were the importance of remembering the Nazis' non-Jewish victims, the significance of achieving justice rather than merely taking revenge, and the importance of judging people by their deeds rather than by their nationality or religion...
The Jewish people have lost a great hero. The world has lost a great humanitarian.
Uri Urbach in Yediot Aharonot
Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal died in Vienna and the radio news said he was a "controversial figure" in Austria... But what does "controversial figure" mean in a state like Austria?... Among the blessed activities of Wiesenthal was turning the lives of fugitive Nazis into hell, and he also annoyed a few senior Austrians. Wiesenthal revealed that several former Nazis were appointed to key positions in the government of the Jewish chancellor Bruno Kreisky.
He pursued, accused and even "informed on" loveable Austrian pensioners who were part of the Austro-German murdering machine... He was, indeed, a controversial figure in Austria, and there is no greater compliment than this for a Jew who fought the Nazis.
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