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.
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.