Justices of the Supreme Court of Israel

Justices of the Supreme Court of Israel

Set out below are links to biographies of all Israeli Supreme Court Justices.  Current members of the Court are listed first, in order of seniority; past Justices are then listed alphabetically.  To see cases in the database in which a particular Justice participated, click on "Translated Opinions" above, and then scroll down to the list of Justices in the left-hand pane under "Refine Search."

Current Justices

President Esther Hayut (2004-2017, President 2017-date)

Uzi Vogelman (2009-2021, Deputy President 2021-date)

Isaac Amit (2009-date)

Noam Sohlberg (2012-date)

Daphne Barak-Erez (2012-date)

Anat Baron (2015-date)

David Mintz (2017-date)

Yael Willner (2017-date)

Yosef Elron (2017-date)

Ofer Grosskopf (2018-date)

Alex Stein (2018-date)

Gila Canfy-Steinitz (2022-date)

Khaled Kabub (2022-date)

Ruth Ronnen (2022-date)

Yechiel Meir Kasher (2022-date)

 

Past Justices

President Shimon Agranat (1948-65, President 1965-76)

Edna Arbel (2004-2014)

Shelomo Asher (1977-80)

Simha Assaf (1948-52)

Gavriel Bach (1982-96)

President Aharon Barak (1979-95, President 1995-2006)

David Bechor (1978-80)

President Dorit Beinisch (1995-2006, President 2006-12)

Moshe Bejski (1975-91)

Hadassah Ben-Itto (1980)

Miriam Ben-Porat (1977-88)

Zvi Berinson (1953-77)

Mishael Cheshin (1992-2006)

Shneor Zalman Cheshin (1948-59, President 1954-59)

Moshe Cohen (1982) 

Yehuda Cohen (1982-84)

Haim Herman Cohn (1960-81)

Yoram Danziger (2007-18)

Dalia Dorner (1994-2004)

Menachem Dunkelblum (1948-52)

Menachem Elon (1978-93)

Izhak Englard (1998-2003)

Moshe Etzioni (1970-78)

David Goitein (1953-61)

Eliezer Goldberg (1983-98)

President Asher Grunis (2003-12, President 2012-15)

Binyamin HaLevy (1963-69)

Avraham Halima (1984-89)

Neal Hendel (2009-2022)

Salim Joubran (2004-2017)

President Yitzhak Kahan (1970-82, President 1982-83)

George Kara (2017-2022)

Yaakov Kedmi (1994-2001)

Yitzhak Kister (1965-75)

President Moshe Landau (1953-80, President 1980-82)

Shlomo Levin (1980-2003)

Dov Levin (1982-95)

Edmund E. Levy (2001-12)

Yaakov Malz (1986-93)

Eliyahu M. Manny (1962-77)

Meni Mazuz (2014-2022)

Eliahu Mazza (1991-2005)

Hanan Melcer (2007-2022)

Yaakov Melitz (1988-1993)

President Miriam Naor (2003-2015, President 2015-2017)

Shoshana Netanyahu (1982-93)

President Yitzhak Olshan (1948-54, President 1954-65)

Theodor Or (1989-2004)

Ayala Procaccia (2001-11)

Eliezer Rivlin (2000-12)

Elyakim Rubinstein (2004-2015, Deputy President 2015-2017)

Ben-Zion Schereschewsky (1975-77)

President Meir Shamgar (1975-83, President 1983-95)

Uri Shoham (2012-18)

Moshe Silberg (1948-70)

President Moshe Smoira (1948-53)

Tova Strasberg-Cohen (1994-2003)

President Yoel Sussman (1953-76, President 1976-80)

Tzevi Eliyahu Tal (1994-97)

Jacob Turkel (1995-2005)

Alfred Witkon (1954-80)

Itzchak Zamir (1994-2001)

Zvi Zylbertal (2012-2017)