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Anat Baron

Anat Baron is an Israeli judge who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Israel from 2015 to 2023.

born 1953Supreme Court justice, 2015 to 2023Class action rulingsRulings on gender equality

Born: 12 October 1953, Israel
Occupation: judge, advocate
Education: Municipal Highschool D (Ironi Dalet), Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University

Anat Baron was born in 1953 in Israel

Anat Baron was born in Israel on 12 October 1953. She finished Ironi Dalet High School in Tel Aviv in 1971 and then served for 2 years in the IDF.

She studied law at Tel Aviv University and graduated in 1977. She interned at the legal office of the defense establishment and was admitted to the bar in 1979.

Baron worked as a private attorney until 1991, when she became a judge at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court. In 2002 she moved to the Tel Aviv District Court, where she handled mainly civil cases, including class actions. Her cases included the civil suit of Anat Kamm against the newspaper Haaretz.

She was selected for the Supreme Court in September 2014, together with Meni Mazuz, and took office in January 2015. Her rulings dealt with defamation, intellectual property, class actions and individual rights. She retired on 12 October 2023, and on that day a ruling she wrote allowed a class action over pollution near Ein Bokek.

Baron is married to real estate developer Gabi Baron. Their son Ran was killed in the Mike's Place suicide bombing in 2003.