Kabub, Khaled

Khaled Kabub is an Israeli-Arab judge and became the Supreme Court’s first Muslim member when he was appointed as justice in 2022. Justice Kabub was born in 1958 and completed his BA in Law in 1988. In 2011, he completed a master's degree in commercial law with honors, which was awarded jointly by Tel Aviv University and the University of California, Berkeley. In 1997, he was appointed a judge on the Netanya Magistrate's Court, and in 2003, he was appointed a judge on the Tel Aviv District Court. Since that year, he has also taught courses in corporations and economics at Bar-Ilan University and Ono Academic College. Justice Kabub gained a reputation as an outstanding jurist in the economic, civil, and criminal fields. Notable cases he tried include those of business magnate Nochi Dankner, who he sentenced to two years imprisonment and a NIS 800,000 fine for securities fraud, and director of the Israel Electric Corporation Dan Cohen, who he sentenced to six years imprisonment and a NIS 10 million fine for fraud, breach of trust, and obstruction of justice.