Haim Yosef Zadok

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Haim Yosef Zadok
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Born(1913-10-02)2 October 1913
Rava-Ruska, Austria-Hungary
Died15 August 2002(2002-08-15) (aged 88)
Germany

Haim Yosef Zadok (Hebrew: חיים יוסף צדוק, born Haim Wilkenfeld; 2 October 1913 – 15 August 2002) was an Israeli jurist and politician.

Early life

Zadok was born in 1913 in Rava-Ruska in Eastern Galicia in Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine). He studied philosophy and Jewish studies at the University of Warsaw. He was a member of the Gordonia youth movement in Poland and in the "Poale Zion Federation" Party.

In 1935, he

Ministry of Justice as a deputy of the Attorney-General, a position he held until 1952.[2] While in this position, he drafted the Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law.[3]

Career

In 1958 he was elected to the

In 1974 he became

His tenure as Minister of Justice saw investigations of senior figures in the Israeli economy and Israeli politics, including the

Israeli settlements but allowed them to reside in IDF camps, as a compromise. He was among the initiators of the sarcastically named "Brilliant trick", in which Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sacked the National Religious Party ministers, a move which eventually collapsed the government. In 1978, he retired from political life.[1]

From 1978 to 1980 he was a lecturer at the

Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. He called for negotiations with the Palestinians and fought against the Law for the Direct Election of the Prime Minister.[2] He also represented Time magazine when a libel suit was brought against it by Ariel Sharon concerning the Sabra and Shatila massacre.[5]

He was a member of many public committees, including the Shamgar Commission, which considered the definition of the role and appointment of the Attorney-General, and he chaired committees that considered the regulation of police activity, the religious councils and the press.

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Zadok died in 2002 of a heart attack during a trip to Germany.[7] He was given the Israel Democracy Institute Award by the IDI.[8] He was cited as one of the Labor Party's greatest leaders by Yossi Sarid and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.[7]

Publications

  • “Law and Government”, edited with Abraham Ben Naftali (1971) (in Hebrew)
  • “Issues in Government in Israel” (1978) (in Hebrew)

References

  1. ^ a b c "Zadok, Haim Joseph". The Israeli Labor movement (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2008-06-19.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Haim J. Zadok". The Israel Democracy Institute. 2002-07-23. Archived from the original on 2020-10-16. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
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  4. ^ "World". Time. 1986-07-07. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
  5. ISSN 0040-781X. Archived from the original
    on October 24, 2012. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
  6. ^ "The Zadok commission". The Seventh Eye (in Hebrew). 2008-02-13. Archived from the original on 2011-05-24. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
  7. ^ a b "Former Justice Minister Haim Zadok died". Ynet (in Hebrew). 2002-08-15. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
  8. ^ "The Israel Democracy Institute Mourns the Passing of Haim Zadok". The Israel Democracy Institute. 2002-08-18. Retrieved 2008-06-19.

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