Moshe Ben-Ze'ev Explained

Birth Date:8 December 1911
Birth Place:Luninets, Russian Empire
Death Place:Jerusalem, Israel
Office1:Attorney General of Israel
Term Start1:1963
Term End1:1968
Predecessor1:Gideon Hausner
Successor1:Meir Shamgar

Moshe Ben-Ze'ev (Hebrew: משה בן זאב, 8 December 1911 – 25 June 1995) was an Israeli jurist who served as Attorney General between 1963 and 1968.

Legal career

Ben-Ze'ev was born in 1911 in Luninets in the Russian Empire (now in Belarus). He emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1935.

In the 1950s he worked as a judge in a Haifa District court and had close ties with the ruling Mapai party.[1] In early 1963 he replaced Gideon Hausner as Attorney General after Hausner resigned to enter politics.

After concluding his term as Attorney General, Ben-Ze'ev opened a private practice with Aryeh Kamar. In 1980 he headed a commission to investigate abuse of civil servants who had exposed corruption.

Ben-Ze'ev died in Jerusalem in June 1995 and was buried at the Mount of Beatitudes.

Notes and References

  1. Lahav, P (1997) Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century p.171