Edmund Levy

Edmund Levy was born in 1941 in Basra

Levy was born in Basra, Iraq, in 1941. He came to Israel with his family at the age of 10 and grew up in Ramat Gan. His father, Eliyahu Salem Levy, was active in the Herut movement and later served as mayor of Ramla.

After his military service, he worked at the Ramla Magistrate's Court while studying law. He received his law license in 1970 and opened his own office. He also served as deputy mayor of Ramla for the Likud.

He became a military judge in 1977, a magistrate judge in 1979 and a Tel Aviv District Court judge in 1984. He mainly heard criminal cases and presided over the panel that convicted Yigal Amir of the murder of Yitzhak Rabin.

Levy was appointed to the Supreme Court in August 2001 and was seen as an activist judge who often wrote dissenting opinions. He dissented on the 2005 disengagement from Gaza and voided the binding of migrant workers to their employers. In 2008 he was elected to the Judicial Selection Committee.

He retired in October 2011. In January 2012 he was appointed to head a committee on building in the West Bank, whose report was published in July 2012. He died in 2014.