Doron Menashe

Doron Menashe was born in 1964 in Bnei Brak

Doron Menashe was born in 1964, the middle of three sons. He grew up in Bnei Brak and attended the municipal high school there. As a youth he played football on a professional track and set a record for bouncing a ball on one foot.

He served in the IDF in an intelligence unit. He earned bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in law at Tel Aviv University, along with a degree in philosophy there. He was admitted to the Israel Bar in 1991.

Menashe began teaching at the University of Haifa in 2000 and also taught at Tel Aviv University and several colleges. In 2006 he founded a master's program in adjudication and criminal procedure at Haifa. He edited the online law journal He'arat Din and later Haifa Law Review, and works as a mediator and arbitrator.

His research deals with the theory of evidence law, including mathematical and economic analysis of its rules. He is also a poet and a member of the Society of Hebrew Writers. His poems have been quoted in court rulings, and he won the Achi prize for poetry for 2023.

Menashe is religious, married, and a father of 5. He lives in Ramat Gan.