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Khaled Kabub

Khaled Kabub is an Israeli jurist who has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Israel since 2022, its first permanent Muslim member.

born 1958First permanent Muslim Supreme Court justiceCorporate and securities law rulingsThe Nochi Dankner trial

Occupation: judge
Education: Tel Aviv University, University of California, Berkeley

Khaled Kabub was born in 1958 in Jaffa

Kabub was born in Jaffa in 1958 to a Muslim family. His father drove buses for the Dan company.

He finished high school in 1975 and studied history and Islam at Tel Aviv University, graduating in 1981. He earned a law degree there in 1988. In 2011 he completed a master's degree in commercial law awarded jointly by Tel Aviv University and the University of California, Berkeley.

From 1989 to 1997 he worked as a lawyer in private practice and served on the Tel Aviv-Yafo city council. He became a judge at the Netanya Magistrate's Court in 1997 and at the Tel Aviv District Court in 2003. In 2010 he joined the court's new economic department, and in 2017 he became the district court's deputy president.

His cases included the securities fraud trial of Nochi Dankner, whom he sentenced to 2 years in prison. He withdrew his Supreme Court candidacy in 2018 and was selected for the court in 2022. In March 2024 the judiciary ombudsman found justified two complaints that he had breached the judges' ethics code.