Kister, Yitzhak

Born in Galicia in 1905, Yitzhak Kister was educated at the University of Lwow and graduated in 1929 with an LL.M. Kister worked as an attorney in Poland from 1925 to 1935, immigrating to Israel in 1935. Kister was appointed to the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court in 1945, and later that year, he was appointed to the District Court. Kister was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1965 and served there until his retirement in 1975. Kister identified as an ultra-orthodox Jew and is considered the only member of that denomination to have served as a justice in the Israeli Supreme Court. Kister died in 1999 at the age of 94.