Elyakim Rubinstein

Eliakim Rubinstein ( born 1947 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli lawyer and diplomat. He is a 2004 member of the Supreme Court of Israel since May.

Career

Rubinstein became in 1967 the academic degree of bachelor in 1969 a Bachelor of Laws degree and in 1974 with magna cum laude, a master at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 1969 to 1983 he was a lecturer in the degree program of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University. In addition, he was 1973-1977 as a lawyer in the legal department of the Defense Ministry of Israel, 1976-1977 Deputy Legal Secretary in the Ministry of Defence and 1977-1981 bureau chief and advisor to the Israeli foreign ministry. From 1977 to 1979 he was a member of the Israeli delegation at the negotiations that led to the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty (Camp David Accords ). In 1980, he was Assistant Director - General in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Department of the normalization of Egyptian- Israeli relations. 1981 to 1985 he worked for Specific tasks of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the department and received in 1982 awarded the rank of ambassador. Rubinstein was 1985/1986 Deputy Head of the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC

1986-1994 he was Secretary of State. In this capacity, he was from 1987 to 1989 head of the committee, coordinated by the Israeli side, the cooperation with the Congress of the United States in investigating the Iran-Contra affair; 1987-1988 Head of the Interdepartmental Committee on Dangerous Drugs; 1987-1995 Member of the Atomic Energy Commission and director of the Forum for the observation of anti-Semitism ( 1988-1994). In 1991 he was. At Israeli preparations for the Madrid Conference and a member of the Israeli negotiating team at the conference From 1991 to 1993 he was head of the negotiating team for talks with Jordanian- Palestinian representatives and from 1993 to 1994 head of the Israeli delegation, which was involved in the negotiations for the formulation of the Israeli- Jordanian peace treaty.

1995 to 1997 he was then judge of the District Court of Jerusalem. Rubinstein was then 1997-2003 Attorney General and since May 2004 a judge at the Israeli Supreme Court.