Meir Shamgar
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| Native name | מאיר שמגר |
| Born | August 13, 1925 The Free City of Danzig (modern Gdańsk, Poland) |
| Citizenship | Israeli |
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| Employer | Israeli Supreme Court |
| Title | President (1983–95) |
| Parents | Eliezer and Dina Sterenberg |
| Awards | 1996 Israel Prize for special contribution to society and the State of Israel |
Meir Shamgar (Hebrew: מאיר שמגר) (born August 13, 1925) was President of the Israeli Supreme Court from 1983 until 1995.
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[edit] Biography
Shamgar was born Meir Sterenberg (or Sternberg) in the Free City of Danzig (modern Gdańsk, Poland) to Eliezer and Dina Sterenberg.[1][1]
He emigrated to Palestine in 1939.[2]
He was arrested by the British in 1944 for anti-British activity and being an Irgun activist, and deported from Palestine to Eritrea. While in detention in Eritrea he studied law by a correspondence course with the University of London.[3][4][5] Fellow inmates in Eritrea included Yitzhak Shamir and Shmuel Tamir.[6]
He studied history and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and law at the Government Law School of the University of London.[2] Part of his legal studies was done while he was interned in Africa.[3]
He served in the Israel Defense Forces, fighting in the 1948 War of Independence and attaining the rank of Brigadier General.[2][7]
In 1996 Shamgar chaired the Commission of Inquiry into murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.[2]
[edit] Awards
In 1996, Shamgar was awarded the Israel Prize, for his special contribution to society and the State of Israel.[4]
In 2005, he was voted the 99th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Sleeman, Elizabeth (2003). The international Who's Who 2004. Europa publications. p. 1527. http://books.google.de/books?id=3NSTvJvIZR4C&pg=PA1527&lpg=PA1527&dq=Meir+Shamgar+danzig+1925&source=bl&ots=unYaxy693N&sig=1bQYJpK0GHjm5x3tHiqfWzFgYIg&hl=de&ei=pqJaTOTDKd_csAaQ3P17&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CC0Q6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=Meir%20Shamgar%20danzig%201925&f=false.
- ^ a b c "Meir Shamgar". Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1990_1999/1998/9/Meir+Shamgar.htm. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
- ^ "Justice Meir Shamgar, Democracy Award Laureate". The Israel Democracy Institute. http://www.idi.org.il/sites/english/AboutIDI/TheDemocracyAward/Pages/TheDemocracyAward4.aspx. Retrieved March 20, 2008.
- ^ "Israel Prize Official Site – Recipients in 1996 (in Hebrew)". http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/TashnagTashsab/TASNAG_TASNAT_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashnav.
- ^ גיא בניוביץ' (June 20, 1995). "הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין – תרבות ובידור". Ynet. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3083171,00.html. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
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