Shoshana Netanyahu

Shoshana Netanyahu was born in 1923 in Free City of Danzig

Shoshana Netanyahu was born Shoshana Shenburg in 1923 in the Free City of Danzig. Her family moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1924 and settled in Haifa. Her father, an engineer, worked on building the Haifa port and taught at the Technion.

She graduated from the Reali School in Haifa and studied law at the Mandate law school from 1941 to 1946. She became a lawyer in 1947. In 1948 she joined the IDF and served as deputy military prosecutor of the Air Force.

After the army she worked at law firms in Haifa. In 1949 she married mathematician Elisha Netanyahu, uncle of Benjamin Netanyahu, and they had 2 sons.

She became a Haifa Magistrates Court judge in 1969 and a Haifa District Court judge in 1974. She joined the Supreme Court and served there until 1993. From 1988 to 1990 she headed a national committee on the health system, known as the Netanyahu Committee.

After retiring she lectured at the University of Haifa and the Hebrew University. In 1997 she headed a public committee on retirement age. She was named Yakir Yerushalayim in 2003 and died in 2022.