Yitzhak Raveh
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Yitzhak Raveh | |
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Tel Aviv-Yafo District Court, Judge | |
In office 1952–1976 | |
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Born | Aurich, Lower Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany | 10 November 1906
Died | 8 November 1989 | (aged 82)
Yitzhak Raveh (
Biography
Yitzhak Raveh was born in Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany, the youngest of six children born to Heinrich and Selma Reuss. He was given the name Franz Reuss. His father was a teacher, Hebrew scholar and author. When he was two years old, his family moved to Berlin.
Reuss grew up in an environment of both German and Jewish cultures. After completing his primary and secondary education at local German schools, he studied law at the
When the Nazi Party came to power that year, Reuss sensed an increasing animosity and competitiveness directed at him by his colleagues at the court, causing him to resign his post on March 31, 1933. The next day, all Jewish Judges who had been admitted to the Bar after 1 August 1914 were permanently removed from the bench. Within a month, Judge Reuss, with his young wife Batya, boarded a ship for the British mandate of Palestine.
After retiring from the court, Raveh pursued his lifelong interests of reading, music appreciation and travel. He died in 1989 from complications of prostatic cancer and heart failure. His wife predeceased him in 1983. He was survived by two daughters and three grandchildren.
Legal career
Reuss resumed his legal profession in Palestine. He rose from private law practice, through directorship of the new Israeli Land Registration Ministry, followed by his appointment in 1952 as judge in the Tel Aviv District Court, He held this position until his retirement in 1976, specializing in Land Law. Upon accepting the judgeship, he officially changed his name to Yitzhak Raveh (initially spelled Ravé).
In 1960, Judge Raveh agreed to serve on a special, three-judge panel at the Jerusalem District Court created for the trial of Adolf Eichmann, who had been instrumental in the annihilation of millions of European Jews during the
As an expert in Land Law, Raveh later headed a parliamentary committee, named after him, which overhauled Israeli rental laws, including those for the protection of lodgers. Raveh also lectured at symposia at the Tel Aviv University, wrote for law journals, and trained future lawyers and judges.
See also
Further reading
- remember.org
- Excerpt from The Holocaust Encyclopedia on Google Books
- Lawyers without Rights: The Fate of Jewish Lawyers in Germany after 1933. A traveling exhibition of the German Federal Bar, the Association of German Jurists, the Israel Bar Association and the German-Israeli Lawyers’ Association. www.brak.de/anwalt-ohne-recht/Panels_neu_1_12.pdf
- Kant's Moral Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Yitzhak Raveh: The Land Law Reflected in Judicial Interpretation and Acquisition of Rights in Good Faith under the Land Law; Tel Aviv University Studies in Law, Volume 1, 118-128, 1975.