David Libai

David Libai was born in 1934 in Tel Aviv

David Libai was born in 1934 in the Kiryat Meir neighborhood of Tel Aviv. His father, Zalman Lubovsky-Libai, was a teacher, journalist and Mapai activist. He attended Ironi Alef High School in Tel Aviv.

He studied law at the Hebrew University through the IDF academic reserve program. He later earned a master's degree and a doctorate in law from the University of Chicago.

He worked for Minister of Justice Pinchas Rosen and became a lawyer in 1960. In 1964 he opened a private law office, and he later taught law at Tel Aviv University. From 1983 he headed the Israel Bar Association.

He entered the Knesset in 1984 and chaired the State Control Committee. Under Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres he was minister of justice, and he started three state inquiry commissions, including one on Rabin's assassination. He left the Knesset in 1996.

He returned to private practice in Tel Aviv and represented Samuel Sheinbein and, for a time, President Moshe Katsav. He died in December 2023.