Micha Lindenstrauss

Micha Lindenstrauss was born in 1937 in Berlin

Lindenstrauss was born in Berlin in 1937. His father, Aharon Walter Lindenstrauss, was a lawyer and a Jewish Agency representative, and his mother Margarete worked as a hospital lab technician. The family moved to Mandatory Palestine when he was 2 years old, first to Tel Aviv and later to Haifa.

He attended the Hebrew Reali School's neighbor, Bialik Gymnasium in Haifa, and then studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As a student he played goalkeeper for Hapoel Jerusalem and became spokesman of the Jerusalem Workers Council in 1960. He earned a master's degree in law in 1965 and also wrote several prose books.

In the IDF he served as a military prosecutor and later as a military court judge. In 1970 he became an aide on the territories to minister Shimon Peres.

He became a traffic judge in 1972 and a magistrate in Haifa in 1975. He later sat on the district courts in Nazareth and Haifa, and in 1999 he became president of the Haifa District Court. In 1992 he acquitted 8 defendants in the Shimrat rape case, a ruling the Supreme Court overturned.

The Knesset elected him State Comptroller, and he took office in July 2005. In 2011 he announced an inquiry into trips taken by Benjamin Netanyahu at the expense of private businessmen. He died in 2019.