Meir Shamgar

Meir Shamgar
Native name מאיר שמגר
Born August 13, 1925 (1925-08-13) (age 86)
The Free City of Danzig
(modern Gdańsk, Poland)
Citizenship Israeli
Alma mater
Employer Israeli Supreme Court
Title President (1983–95)
Parents Eliezer and Dina Sterenberg
Awards 1996 Israel Prize for special contribution to society and the State of Israel

Meir Shamgar (Hebrew: מאיר שמגר) (born August 13, 1925) was President of the Israeli Supreme Court from 1983 until 1995.

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Biography

Shamgar was born Meir Sterenberg (or Sternberg) in the Free City of Danzig (modern Gdańsk, Poland) to Eliezer and Dina Sterenberg.[1][1]

He emigrated to Palestine in 1939.[2]

He was arrested by the British in 1944 for anti-British activity and being an Irgun activist, and deported from Palestine to Eritrea. While in detention in Eritrea he studied law by a correspondence course with the University of London.[3][4][5] Fellow inmates in Eritrea included Yitzhak Shamir and Shmuel Tamir.[6]

He studied history and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and law at the Government Law School of the University of London.[2] Part of his legal studies was done while he was interned in Africa.[3]

He served in the Israel Defense Forces, fighting in the 1948 War of Independence and attaining the rank of Brigadier General.[2][7]

In 1996 Shamgar chaired the Commission of Inquiry into murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.[2]

Awards

In 1996, Shamgar was awarded the Israel Prize, for his special contribution to society and the State of Israel.[4]

In 2005, he was voted the 99th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.[5]

References

  1. ^ Sleeman, Elizabeth (2003). The international Who's Who 2004. Europa publications. p. 1527. http://books.google.de/books?id=3NSTvJvIZR4C&pg=PA1527&lpg=PA1527&dq=Meir+Shamgar+danzig+1925&source=bl&ots=unYaxy693N&sig=1bQYJpK0GHjm5x3tHiqfWzFgYIg&hl=de&ei=pqJaTOTDKd_csAaQ3P17&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CC0Q6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=Meir%20Shamgar%20danzig%201925&f=false. 
  2. ^ a b c "Meir Shamgar". Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1990_1999/1998/9/Meir+Shamgar.htm. Retrieved December 30, 2009. 
  3. ^ "Justice Meir Shamgar, Democracy Award Laureate". The Israel Democracy Institute. http://www.idi.org.il/sites/english/AboutIDI/TheDemocracyAward/Pages/TheDemocracyAward4.aspx. Retrieved March 20, 2008. 
  4. ^ "Israel Prize Official Site – Recipients in 1996 (in Hebrew)". http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/TashnagTashsab/TASNAG_TASNAT_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashnav. 
  5. ^ גיא בניוביץ' (June 20, 1995). "הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין – תרבות ובידור". Ynet. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3083171,00.html. Retrieved July 10, 2011. 

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See also

Ya'akov Shimshon Shapira (1948-1950)  · Haim Cohn (1950-1960)  · Gideon Hausner (1960-1963)  · Moshe Ben-Ze'ev (1963-1968)  · Meir Shamgar (1968-1975)  · Aharon Barak (1975-1978)  · Yitzhak Zamir (1978-1986)  · Yosef Harish (1986-1993)  · Michael Ben-Yair (1993-1997)  · Roni Bar-On (1997)  · Elyakim Rubinstein (1997-2004)  · Menachem Mazuz (2004-2010)  · Yehuda Weinstein (2010-)
Presidents of the Supreme Court of Israel
Smoira (1948–54) · Olshan (1954–65) · Agranat (1965–76) · Zussman (1976–80) · Landau (1980–82) · Kahan (1982–83) · Shamgar (1983–95) · Barak (1995–2006) · Beinisch (2006–present)

Aharon Hoter-Yishai (1948-1950) · Aharon Moyal (1950-1953) · Meir Zohar (1953-1961) · Meir Shamgar (1961-1968)
Tzvi Hadar (1968-1973) · Tzvi Inbar (1973–1979) · Dov Shefi (1979–1984) · Ben-Tziyon Farkhi (1984–1986)
Amnon Straschnov (1986-1991) · Ilan Schiff (1991–1995) · Uri Shoham (1995–2000) · Menachem Finkelstein (2000-2004) ·
Avichai Mandelblit (2004-2011) · Danny Efroni (since 2011)