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Hanan Melcer

Hanan Melcer is an Israeli judge who served on the Supreme Court of Israel from 2007 to 2021 and as its Deputy President.

born 1951Supreme Court justice, 2007 to 2021Deputy President of the Supreme CourtChairing the Central Elections Committee

Born: 12 April 1951, Tel Aviv
Occupation: judge, lawyer
Party: Democratic Movement for Change, Shinui, Israeli Labor Party
Education: Tel Aviv University

Hanan Melcer was born in 1951 in Tel Aviv

Hanan Melcer was born in Tel Aviv in 1951 to Holocaust survivors from Poland. He went to high school at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium.

He studied law at Tel Aviv University in the Atuda program and earned a bachelor's degree with honors. He later taught administrative law and tender law there.

In the IDF he served in the Military Advocate General's Office as a military prosecutor. He reached the rank of lieutenant colonel.

In 1977 he founded a law firm focused on infrastructure, communications, business and administrative law. He was politically active in Dash, Shinui and the Labor Party, where he chaired its legal committee until 2004. He gave legal advice on projects such as the Tel Aviv light rail and the Cross-Israel Highway.

He was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice in 2007 and became Deputy President in 2017. He chaired the Central Elections Committee for the elections to the 21st and 22nd Knesset and retired in 2021. Later in 2021 he was elected president of the Press Council.