Avigdor Feldman

Avigdor Feldman was born in 1948 in Tel Aviv

Feldman was born in Tel Aviv in 1948 to parents who survived the Holocaust. He attended a religious school but left religion as a teenager. His brother, Hanan Peled, is a screenwriter and playwright.

He did not finish high school and later earned an external matriculation certificate. After military service he played drums in a local band. He studied law at Tel Aviv University, worked for lawyer Amnon Zichroni, and was certified as a lawyer in 1974. In 1985 he received a master's degree in civil rights from American University.

Feldman was a founding member of B'Tselem and set up the litigation center at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. He filed many petitions to the High Court of Justice, including on the Sabra and Shatila massacre, torture in Shin Bet interrogations and the film Jenin, Jenin. His clients included Mordechai Vanunu, Marcus Klingberg, Tali Fahima, Anat Kamm and Moshe Katsav.

Since 2017 he has written a column called Open Doors in Haaretz, and a book of the same name came out in 2024. He lives in Tel Aviv with his partner Ronit Robinson and is a father of 3.