Moshe Landau

Moshe Landau (Hebrew משה לנדוי born April 29, 1912 in Gdansk, † May 1, 2011 in Jerusalem ) was a German -Israeli judge and President of the Supreme Court in Israel.

Life

1930 Landau began studying law at the University of London and emigrated in 1933 to Palestine. In 1937, he received his certification as a lawyer and worked at the law firm of Pinchas Rosen and Moses Smoira. Since 1940 he worked as a district court judge ( Magistrate Judge ) in Haifa. In parallel, he was legally operate until the independence of Israel for the forbidden Zionist underground organization Haganah. From 1953 to 1982 he was Judge of the Supreme Court of Israel, from 1976 to 1979 as vice president and from 1980 to 1982 as president. In 1961 he held the chair in the trial of Adolf Eichmann in the District Court of Jerusalem, his associate judge were Benjamin Halevi and Yitzhak Raveh. In 1991 he was awarded the Israel Prize in the category of law.

From 1962 to 1970 Landau was chairman of the independent committee of Yad Vashem, which decides on the award of the title of Righteous among the Nations.

Family

Landau was the doctor's son Isaac Landau (1884-1947), a leading member of the Danzig Jewish community, who migrated to Palestine in 1933. In 1937, Moshe Landau Leah Doukhan married.

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