Yosef Harish
Yosef Harish | |
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יוסף חריש | |
Attorney General of Israel | |
In office 1986–1993 | |
Preceded by | Yitzhak Zamir |
Succeeded by | Michael Ben-Yair |
Personal details | |
Born | (1923-09-15)15 September 1923 Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine |
Died | 6 November 2013(2013-11-06) (aged 90) Tel Aviv, Israel |
Nationality | Israeli |
Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Occupation | Jurist |
Yosef Harish (Hebrew: יוסף חריש 15 September 1923 – 6 November 2013) was an Israeli jurist who served as the country's Attorney General between 1986 and 1993.
Biography
Born in Jerusalem on 15 September 1923, Harish was educated in a yeshiva. He joined the Haganah, and volunteered for the British Army during World War II, before serving as an officer in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
He studied for bachelor's and master's degrees in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and began working as a magistrate. He became a judge in the Tel Aviv District court in 1969, and later became its vice-president. In 1986 Harish was appointed Attorney General.[1] His predecessor Yitzhak Zamir had resigned after refusing to abandon an investigation into the activities of the head of Israel's GSS.[2] A year later Harish set up the Landau Commission to investigate methods used by the GSS.
He left the post on 1 November 1993 and was replaced by Michael Ben-Yair.
Harish died on 6 November 2013. At the time of his death Harish resided in the Ramat Aviv area of Tel Aviv.
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- Ya'akov Shimshon Shapira (1948–50)
- Haim Cohn (1950–60)
- Gideon Hausner (1960–63)
- Moshe Ben-Ze'ev (1963–68)
- Meir Shamgar (1968–75)
- Aharon Barak (1975–78)
- Yitzhak Zamir (1978–86)
- Yosef Harish (1986–93)
- Michael Ben-Yair (1993–97)
- Roni Bar-On (1997)
- Elyakim Rubinstein (1997–2004)
- Menachem Mazuz (2004–10)
- Yehuda Weinstein (2010–16)
- Avichai Mandelblit (2016–22)
- Gali Baharav-Miara (2022–)
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