Shai Nitzan was the former State Attorney of Israel, from 2013 to December 2019. Nitzan headed the commission assigned to investigate the

October 2000 events The October 2000 protests, also known as October 2000 events, were a series of protests in Arab villages in northern Israel in October 2000 that turned violent, escalating into rioting by Israeli Arabs, which led to counter-rioting by Israeli Je ...

, finding no misconduct on the part of the

Israel Police The Israel Police ( he, משטרת ישראל, ''Mišteret Yisra'el''; ar, شرطة إسرائيل, ''Shurtat Isrāʼīl'') is the civilian police force of Israel. As with most other police forces in the world, its duties include crime fightin ...

. The position was vacant from December 2019 to 5 February 2020, when

Dan Eldad Dan Eldad is an Israeli lawyer who served as acting State Attorney of Israel from 5 February to 1 May 2020. Life Eldad is the son of the Israeli actress Dina Doron and theater director Ilan Eldad. He was appointed to head the economic investigati ...

was appointed to the position.

Avichai Mandelblit Avichai Mandelblit ( he, אביחי מנדלבליט; born 29 July 1963) is an Israeli jurist who served as the Attorney General of Israel from 2016 to 2022. Mandelblit had a long career in the Israel Defense Forces legal system, eventually serv ...

had initially objected to Eldad's appointment, but later dropped his opposition. In November of 2021 Nitzan was appointed rector of the

National Library of Israel The National Library of Israel (NLI; he, הספרייה הלאומית, translit=HaSifria HaLeumit; ar, المكتبة الوطنية في إسرائيل), formerly Jewish National and University Library (JNUL; he, בית הספרים הלא� ...

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1959 births State Attorneys of Israel Living people Israeli people of Czechoslovak-Jewish descent Israeli people of Hungarian-Jewish descent People from Jerusalem {{Israel-bio-stub