Eliezer Rivlin

Eliezer Rivlin was born in 1942 in Jerusalem

Eliezer Rivlin was born in Jerusalem on May 28, 1942, to the Rivlin family, which came to Jerusalem with the students of the Vilna Gaon. He finished high school at the Hebrew Gymnasium in Rehavia. He lives in Jerusalem and has 4 children.

He studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was admitted to the bar in 1969. He earned a master's degree in law at Tel Aviv University in 1978 and another master's degree at Temple University in 1986.

He practiced law in Beersheba before becoming a traffic court judge in 1976. He later served as a magistrate in several southern cities and joined the Beersheba District Court in 1982, becoming its vice president in 1995. In 1993 he published a book on road accident law.

He joined the Supreme Court in 1999 and became Deputy President in 2006. He chaired the Central Elections Committee for the 18th Knesset elections and retired in May 2012.

From 2013 to 2018 he served as Ombudsman for Complaints against Judges. In 2013 he also headed a committee on compensation for Dimona nuclear workers with cancer. He now chairs the Bank of Israel committee on banknote and coin design.