Isaac Amit

Isaac Amit was born in 1958 in Tel Aviv

Amit was born Yitzhak Goldfreund in Tel Aviv on 20 October 1958 and grew up in the Shapira neighborhood. His father survived the Buchenwald and Plaszow camps, and his mother lost her family in the Holocaust and was raised by a Christian family. He attended religious schools in Tel Aviv and finished high school in 1976.

He served as an officer in Unit 8200 and was discharged in 1980. In 1981 he began law studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and earned a law degree with honors in 1985. He was licensed as a lawyer in 1986 and worked in private practice.

In 1997 he became a magistrate judge in Acre and later in Haifa. He was appointed to the Haifa District Court in 2002. He was elected to the Supreme Court in August 2009 and took office in October 2009, and he chaired the Central Elections Committee for the 25th Knesset.

Justice Minister Yariv Levin opposed his appointment as court president and did not convene the Judicial Selection Committee until the High Court ordered him to. Amit became acting president in October 2024 and was elected president on 26 January 2025, while coalition members boycotted the vote. He was sworn in on 13 February 2025, and the government boycotted the ceremony.

He is married to Rebecca, a social worker, and they live in Mevaseret Zion.