Shoshana Netanyahu
Shoshana Netanyahu | |
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| Justice at the Supreme Court of Israel | |
| In office 1981–1993 | |
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| Born | Shoshana Shenburg 6 April 1923 Free City of Danzig |
| Died | 7 October 2022 (aged 99) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Spouse | Elisha Netanyahu |
| Children | 2, including Nathan |
| Occupation | Judge, lawyer |
Shoshana Netanyahu (Hebrew: שׁוֹשַׁנָּה נְתַנְיָהוּ; 6 April 1923 – 7 October 2022)[1] was an Israeli judge and lawyer who was a justice at the Supreme Court of Israel. She was married to mathematician Elisha Netanyahu (1912–1986), who was the uncle of Benjamin Netanyahu, current Prime Minister of Israel.
Biography
Netanyahu was born Shoshana Shenburg in 1923, in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). She immigrated to Palestine with her family in 1924, and settled in the Bat Galim neighborhood of Haifa. 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
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, 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
Following her retirement from the bench, Netanyahu was an adjunct lecturer at the
Netanyahu had two children:
References
- ^ "Retired High Court judge Shoshana Netanyahu dies at 99". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
- ^ Eliahou, Galia. "Shoshana Netanyahu". Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive.
External links
- Salokar, Rebecca Mae; Mary L. Volcansek (1996). Women in Law: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 376. ISBN 0-313-29410-0.
- 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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