RELATED:PM: Lessons of Shoah not learned, anti-Semitism spreadsHow the Eichmann trial changed IsraelPM marks Eichmann trial anniversary: The Jewish People liveAdmitted to the Palestine Bar in 1937, he rose rapidly in the judicial system, and in 1940 was appointed a judge in the Haifa Magistrate’s Court. This was followed by a promotion to the District Court in 1948, and the Supreme Court in 1953. He put in more than 20 years of service at the Supreme Court, before becoming its deputy president in 1976. He then had to wait another four years until his appointment as president, a position he held for only two years before reaching retirement age.He was also the first chairman of the Yad Vashem Commission for the Designation of the Righteous Among the Nations.Other posts he held include chairman of the World Zionist Congress Tribunal, chairman of the Advisory Commissions on Israel Land Laws Reforms, Criminal Procedures and Administrative Tribunals, and honorary chairman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology’s Board of Governors.
Moshe Landau, judge at Eichmann trial, dies at 99
German-born Israel Prize laureate served on Agranat Commission that probed failures of Yom Kippur War.
RELATED:PM: Lessons of Shoah not learned, anti-Semitism spreadsHow the Eichmann trial changed IsraelPM marks Eichmann trial anniversary: The Jewish People liveAdmitted to the Palestine Bar in 1937, he rose rapidly in the judicial system, and in 1940 was appointed a judge in the Haifa Magistrate’s Court. This was followed by a promotion to the District Court in 1948, and the Supreme Court in 1953. He put in more than 20 years of service at the Supreme Court, before becoming its deputy president in 1976. He then had to wait another four years until his appointment as president, a position he held for only two years before reaching retirement age.He was also the first chairman of the Yad Vashem Commission for the Designation of the Righteous Among the Nations.Other posts he held include chairman of the World Zionist Congress Tribunal, chairman of the Advisory Commissions on Israel Land Laws Reforms, Criminal Procedures and Administrative Tribunals, and honorary chairman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology’s Board of Governors.