Reprinting of Hitler's book rankles some Israelis

The controversy over the upcoming republication of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf in Germany is making waves in Israel, where memories of the Holocaust run deep and the book remains taboo.

Hitler's anti-Semitic rant, which he wrote from prison in the early 1920s, loses its copyright in Germany on Friday, and the country's first release of it since 1945 is due out soon in the form of an extensively annotated version.

The copyright had been held by the German state of Bavaria, to which it was granted by the victorious Allies after World War II. It now enters the public domain.