Hila Gerstl

Hila Gerstl was born in 1955 in Herzliya

Hila Gerstl was born Hila Fuchs in Herzliya in 1955. Her parents were Holocaust survivors who came from Poland in 1946 on an immigrant ship. She attended a municipal high school in Herzliya.

She served in the IDF from 1973 to 1975. She graduated in law from Tel Aviv University in 1978 and interned from 1977 to 1979. She then worked as a salaried lawyer and later in private practice.

She became a Magistrate's Court judge in Tel Aviv in 1990 and joined the Tel Aviv District Court in 1996, with a permanent appointment in 1997. From 2000 she headed a committee on legal internships and bar exams, which reported in 2002. She became deputy president in 2006 and withdrew her Supreme Court candidacy in 2004 for personal reasons.

In 2007 she founded the Central District Court and became its first president. In April 2014 she took office as Ombudsman for State Prosecutorial Representatives and handled hundreds of cases. After a long dispute with the state prosecutors' organization, she resigned in 2016.

She now works as a private mediator, including in a 2017 libel case. She is married to Reuven and they have 2 children.