Miriam Naor

Miriam Naor was born in 1947 in Jerusalem

Naor was born in Jerusalem in 1947 to Batya Karklinsky and Naftaly Lerner. Her father was a Haganah fighter and her mother an Irgun fighter. She finished high school at the Hebrew Gymnasium Rehavia in 1965.

After army service, she completed law studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1971 with honors. She clerked for Supreme Court justice Moshe Landau. In 1972 she joined the State Attorney's Office and rose to senior deputy to the State Attorney.

In 1980 she became a judge at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, and in 1989 at the Jerusalem District Court. There she sat on the panel that convicted Aryeh Deri and presided alone over the bankers' trial. She became a permanent Supreme Court justice in 2003.

She became Deputy President in 2012 and President in January 2015, succeeding Asher Grunis. In 2017 her panel struck down the yeshiva student draft arrangement. She retired in October 2017 and was succeeded by Esther Hayut.

From 2018 she was President of the Zionist Supreme Court of the World Zionist Organization. In 2021 she was named head of the state commission of inquiry into the Mount Meron disaster. She died in 2022 and was buried in Jerusalem.