Benjamin Halevy

Benjamin Halevi ( born May 6, 1910 in White Rock as Ernst Levi; † 7 August 1996) was an Israeli judge and politician.

Life

Halevi studied in Freiburg, Göttingen and Berlin. In 1933 he received his doctorate at Martin Wolff magna cum laude. In the same year Halevi emigrated to Palestine, where he worked in the Kibbutz Degania B. In 1938 he was appointed by the British Mandate government as the first Jewish immigrants from Germany to the Official Judge ( Magistrates Jugde ) in Jerusalem. In 1948, he became president of the Jerusalem District Court and in 1963 a member of the Supreme Court.

1955 led Halevi preside over the so-called Kasztner method: the former chairman of the Jewish " Committee for relief and rescue " in Budapest, Rudolf Kasztner had been accused in 1952 in a newspaper article collaboration with the Nazis and complicity in the deaths of many Jews. Kasztner filed a libel case. Halevi in its judgment, however, that Kasztner " sold his soul to the devil " have. The decision was later overturned.

In addition to Moshe Landau and Yitzhak Raveh Halevi in 1961 Member of the Chamber, who had to decide in the first instance in the trial of Adolf Eichmann.

Political career

1969 Halevi was a member of the Knesset for the conservative- nationalist Herut. In 1973 he was re-elected for the Likud, in which the Herut had risen. Later, he left the party and was attached Members. In 1977 he went to the so-called Dash - list, after their disintegration he was again independent member of the Knesset. Between 1977 and 1981 he also served as Vice President of the Parliament.

Private

Halevi was married to Michal Halevi. From this marriage two children were born.

Others

1977 visited Halevi private Weissenfels. Today there remembers a street name to him.