Levin, Dov

Dov Levin was born in Tel Aviv in 1925. In 1951 Levin was accepted to the Israeli Bar and worked as a lawyer until 1966, when he received his first judicial appointment in the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court. In 1972 he was appointed to the district court and in 1981 to the Israeli Supreme Court. In 1988, he presided over a special court that judged John Demjanjuk and in the same year was responsible for disqualifying the Kach party from running for the Knesset. Levin retired from the Supreme Court in 1995 and passed away in 2001 at the age of 75.