Eliyahu Winograd

Eliyahu Winograd was born in 1926 in Tel Aviv

Winograd was born in Tel Aviv in 1926, the youngest of 7 children of Israel and Hannah Winograd. His father was a businessman who imported food goods. He went to high school at the Mizrahi Teachers' Training College in Jerusalem.

He studied at the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics. From 1948 to 1950 he served in the IDF. He married Yocheved Plotnitzky after his release.

He became a lawyer in 1952 and worked at the Yizhar Harari law firm until 1960. He was an assistant to the Tel Aviv District Attorney from 1960 to 1963, then ran his own practice until 1972.

He was appointed to the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court in 1972 and to the Tel Aviv District Court in 1977. He earned a doctorate in law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1983. He was an acting Supreme Court judge in 1987 and president of the Tel Aviv District Court from 1989 to 1996.

After retiring in 1996 he worked as an arbitrator and chaired public commissions, including the Winograd Commission on the Second Lebanon War. He joined the Gideon Fisher law firm as a partner in 2008. He died on January 13, 2018.