Shoshana Netanyahu ( he, שׁוֹשַׁנָּה נְתַנְיָהוּ; 6 April 1923 – 7 October 2022) was an Israeli judge and lawyer who was a justice at the
Supreme Court of Israel
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. She was married to
mathematician
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History
On ...
Elisha Netanyahu
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(1912–1986), who was the uncle of
Benjamin Netanyahu
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, current
Prime Minister of Israel
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.
Biography
Netanyahu was born Shoshana Shenburg in 1923, in the
Free City of Danzig
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(now
Gdańsk
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,
Poland
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). She immigrated to
Palestine
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with her family in 1924, and settled in the
Bat Galim neighborhood of
Haifa
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. She graduated from the
Reali High School in Haifa 1941, and took
British Mandate-operated legal classes.
Netanyahu worked at the law firm of S. Horowitz, and then spent a year serving as assistant prosecutor in the
Israel Air Force
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. She returned to her previous position, and two years later moved to the advocate firm, Friedman and Komisar.
In 1949, she married professor Elisha Netanyahu; their elder son was born in 1951. In 1953 the family left for a sabbatical at
Stanford University
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, where their second son was born.
In 1960 she returned to Friedman and Komisar. In 1969 she was appointed a judge on the Magistrates Court in Haifa and from 1974 to 1981 she served as a Haifa District Court judge. In 1981, she became the second female Israel Supreme Court justice, after
Miriam Ben-Porat
Miriam Ben-Porat ( he, מרים בן פורת, née Shinezon, 26 April 1918 – 26 July 2012) was an Israeli jurist. She was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Israel and the State Comptroller of Israel from 1988–1998.
Biography
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's retirement. She retired from the Supreme Court in 1993. During her tenure, she also headed a national committee on
health care in Israel
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from 1988 to 1990, which led to major legislative changes.
Following her retirement from the bench, Netanyahu was an adjunct lecturer at the
University of Haifa
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(1993–1998) and at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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(1993–2002). In 1993, she received the
Women’s League for Conservative Judaism award. She received an
honorary doctorate
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from the University of Haifa in 1997. In 2002 she was made an
honorary citizen
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of
Jerusalem
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.
Netanyahu had two children:
Nathan
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(b. 1951), a professor of
computer science
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at
Bar-Ilan University
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, and Dan (b. 1954), an
information systems
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auditor.
References
External links
*
* Martin Edelman, "The Judicial Elite of Israel", ''International Political Science Review'', Vol. 13, No. 3 (July 1992), pp. 235–248.
* Shmuel Penchas, Mordechai Shani, "Redesigning a national health-care system: the Israeli experience", ''International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance'', volume 8 (1995), issue 2, pp. 9–17.
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