David Mintz

David Mintz was born in 1959 in United Kingdom

Mintz was born on 8 May 1959 in the United Kingdom to a Jewish family. He moved to Israel with his family in 1970. From 1974 to 1977 he studied at the Midrashiat Noam religious high school.

In 1977 he joined the hesder program at Yeshivat Har Etzion and served in the Armored Corps until 1982. He studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1983 to 1986. He later earned a Master of Laws in 2008 and a doctorate in law in 2017 there.

He clerked for Judge Yehuda Weiss in 1986 and worked as a lawyer from 1987 to 1998, later as a partner. In 1998 he became a judge on the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court. He joined the Jerusalem District Court as registrar in 2009 and became a judge there in 2011, handling insolvency cases such as the recovery of Hadassah Medical Center.

In February 2017 he was selected for the Supreme Court and took office in June 2017, replacing Zvi Zylbertal. He is considered a conservative justice. A March 2025 ruling of his on aid to Gaza during the Gaza war drew criticism for its religious language.

Mintz lives in Dolev. He is married to Varda and has 5 children.