Moshe Ben-Ze'ev

Moshe Ben-Ze'ev (Hebrew: משה בן זאב, December 8, 1911 – June 25, 1995) was an Israeli jurist who served as Attorney General between 1963 and 1968.

Ben-Ze'ev was born December 8, 1911 in Luninets in the Russian Empire (now in Belarus). He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1935.

In the 1950s he worked as a judge in a Haifa District court and had close ties with the ruling Mapai party.[1] In early 1963 he replaced Gideon Hausner as Attorney General after Hausner resigned to enter politics.

After concluding his term as Attorney General, Ben-Ze'ev opened a private practice with Aryeh Kamar. In 1980 he headed a commission to investigate abuse of civil servants who had exposed corruption.

Ben-Ze'ev died in Jerusalem on June 25, 1995 and was buried at the Mount of Beatitudes.

References
  1. Lahav, P (1997) Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century p.171


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