Eliezer Goldberg

Eliezer Goldberg was born in 1931 in Jerusalem

Eliezer Goldberg was born in Jerusalem on 24 May 1931. He attended the Hebrew Gymnasium Rehavia and finished there in 1949.

He studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1952 to 1955. He interned in the office of the president of the Jerusalem District Court and became a lawyer in 1957. He then worked at law firms until 1964.

Goldberg became a traffic judge in 1964 and a magistrate in 1965. In 1974 he joined the Jerusalem District Court, and he was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1984. He chaired the Central Election Commission for the 12th Knesset and sat on the Shamgar Commission on the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre.

The Knesset chose him as State Comptroller and Public Complaints Commissioner, and he held the post from 1998 to 2005. He later headed a committee on Bedouin settlement in the Negev and served as Ombudsman for Judges from 2008 to 2013. In 2018 he became chair of the advisory committee on senior civil service appointments.

Goldberg died in March 2022 and was buried at Har HaMenuchot.