Jacob Neeman

Jacob Neeman was born in 1939 in Tel Aviv

Neeman was born in Tel Aviv in 1939 to a religious Zionist family, the eldest of four sons of Menachem and Malka Neuman. He studied at several yeshiva high schools, including Midrashiat Noam.

He enlisted in the IDF in 1958 and served in the Golani Brigade. He then studied law at the Hebrew University, finishing his first degree in 1964. He earned a master's degree from New York University in 1965 and a doctorate in law there in 1968.

He taught law at several universities and helped found the law faculty at Bar-Ilan University. In 1972 he co-founded the law firm Herzog, Fox & Ne'eman with Chaim Herzog. From 1979 to 1981 he was Director General of the Finance Ministry.

In June 1996 Benjamin Netanyahu appointed him Minister of Justice. He resigned in August 1996 when a criminal investigation was opened against him, and he was acquitted in May 1997. He served as Minister of Finance from July 1997 to December 1998, and again as Minister of Justice from 2009 to 2013.

He lived in the Talbiya neighborhood of Jerusalem and died in 2017. He was survived by his wife and 6 children.