Moshe Smoira

Moses Smoira ( born October 25, 1888 in Königsberg ( Prussia); † October 8, 1961 in Jerusalem ) was a German - Jewish jurist.

Life

Smoira visited the Kneiphöfsche high school and studied law in Königsberg, Munich and Berlin. In 1910 he received a doctorate in law. and made his clerkship in Königsberg. Until 1922 he was head of a Hebrew language school in Berlin.

In 1922 he emigrated to Palestine in 1923 and admitted to practice law in the Palestinian courts. In 1930 he became president of the Jewish Bar Association in Palestine. Opened in 1948, the Supreme Court in Israel, was appointed as its President Smoira what it was until 1954.

Smoira was married to Esther Horowitz. They had two daughters. Smoiras brother Dr. Joseph Smoira (1889-1964) had to emigrate to Palestine in 1935.

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