Yitzhak Kahan ( he, יצחק כהן; November 15, 1913 – April 24, 1985) was President of the
Supreme Court of Israel from 1982 until 1983. He was the Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut also known as the
Kahan Commission, which was established to investigate the
Sabra and Shatila massacre
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.
Born in
Brody
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,
Galicia,
Austria-Hungary
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, he was the brother of Rav
Kalman Kahana
Kalman Kahana ( he, קלמן כהנא, 31 May 1910, Brody, western Ukraine – 20 August 1991) was a long-serving Israeli politician and journalist, and a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence.
He was the brother of Yitzhak Kaha ...
, a former
Knesset
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member. He studied law, administration, and economics at the
University of Lviv
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before emigrating to
Mandatory Palestine
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in 1935.
In 1950, he was appointed a magistrate judge in
Haifa
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, and he became a district judge in, 1953. On October 7, 1970, Kahan was appointed to the
Supreme Court of Israel.
On March 26, 1981, he was appointed
President
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of the Supreme Court of Israel.
References
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1913 births
1985 deaths
People from Brody
Ukrainian Jews
20th-century Israeli judges
Chief justices of the Supreme Court of Israel
Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
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