Yosef Harish

Yosef Harish (Hebrew: יוסף חריש‎ ‎ 1923 - 6 November 2013) was an Israeli jurist who served as the country's Attorney General between 1986 and 1993.

Biography

Born in Jerusalem in 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. His predecessor Yitzhak Zamir had resigned after refusing to abandon an investigation into the activities of the head of Israel's GSS.^[1] 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 November 6, 2013. At the time of his death Harish resided in the Ramat Aviv area of Tel Aviv.

References

v t e Attorneys General of Israel 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–)