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George Karra

George Karra is an Israeli jurist who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Israel from 2017 to 2022.

born 1952Justice of Israel's Supreme CourtPresiding in the Moshe Katsav trialOpposing demolition of attackers' homes

Born: 29 May 1952, Jaffa
Occupation: judge
Education: Tel Aviv University

George Karra was born in 1952 in Jaffa

George Karra was born on 29 May 1952 in Jaffa to an Arab Christian family. He went to the Terra Sancta primary school and the Eshkolot high school in Jaffa. He is married and has three daughters.

He finished his law studies at Tel Aviv University in 1973. He then worked as a lawyer in private practice, sharing an office with his cousin. In those years he was active in an association for the Arabs of Jaffa and in the Orthodox Christian association.

In 1989 he became a judge on the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, and in 2000 he moved to the Tel Aviv District Court. There he headed a panel that heard serious criminal cases. He presided over the panel that convicted former President Moshe Katsav of rape, and he also convicted Ofer Nimrodi of illegal wiretapping.

He was chosen for the Supreme Court in February 2017 and sworn in on 13 June 2017. On the court he opposed in principle the demolition of attackers' homes, calling it collective punishment. He retired in 2022 and received the President's Medal in 2025.