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Moshe Landau

Moshe Landau

Judge Moshe Landau
צילום "נוי" ורחל הרמתי, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Was born on April 29, 1912, in Danzig.
  • Between the years 1930-1933 he studied law at the University of London and received an LLB degree.
  • In 1933 he immigrated to Israel.
  • In 1934 he passed the exams for foreign lawyers, and in 1937 he was qualified as a lawyer.
  • In the years 1933-1939 he worked at the law firm Zamora, Rosenblit, Krongold, Bar Shira, first in Tel Aviv and then in Jerusalem.
  • From 1939 he served as a lawyer in the partnership of lawyers Dochan, Landoi & Co.
  • In 1940 he was appointed as a judge of the Haifa Magistrate's Court.
    25.7.1948 was appointed as a judge in the district court in Haifa.
  • On 29.12.1953 he was appointed as a judge in the Supreme Court.
  • Between the years 1956-1962 and 1965-1966 he headed the executive committee of the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, and later served as the deputy chairman of the committee.
  • Between the years 1963 In 1970, he headed the committee of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem.
  • On September 14, 1976, he was appointed as permanent acting president of the Supreme Court.
  • On May 5, 1980, he was appointed to the position of president of the Supreme Court.
  • Among other things, he served as a member of the International Court of Arbitration in The Hague. He chaired the Advisory Committee on Real Estate Law, chaired the Advisory Committee on Criminal Procedure, chaired the Advisory Committee on quasi-judicial authorities, served as vice chairman of the Council for Higher Education, as a member of the Yad Vashem Council and a member of the investigative committee of the Yom Kippur War.
  • On 04/21/1982 Retired from office.
  • He passed away on 01/05/2011.

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Judge Moshe Landau
צילום "נוי" ורחל הרמתי, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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