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Suzie Navot

Suzie Navot is an Israeli professor of constitutional law and served as Vice President of Research at the Israel Democracy Institute.

born 1958Constitutional law scholarshipResearch on parliamentary immunityIsrael Democracy Institute research leadershipMedia commentary on constitutional issues

Born: 27 January 1958, Montevideo
Occupation: lawyer, advocate, legal scholar, jurist
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University

Suzie Navot was born in 1958 in Montevideo

Suzie Navot was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, to Bella and Naftali Eisenberg. She moved to Israel with her family in 1970 and finished high school at Tichon Hadash in Tel Aviv. She did her army service in the IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

At Tel Aviv University she studied French language and literature and then law, earning a law degree with honors in 1984. She completed a master's degree in public policy there in 1990. In 1998 she received a doctorate in law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with a thesis on the immunity of Knesset members supervised by Claude Klein.

She taught constitutional and public law at the Striks School of Law at the College of Management, where she headed the public law division. She was a visiting lecturer at the Sorbonne in Paris and taught at the National Security College from 2009 to 2019. She later served as Vice President of Research at the Israel Democracy Institute.

She sat on public committees, including the Zamir committee on ethics rules for Knesset members and the Beinisch committee on election propaganda law. She has written opinions for Knesset committees and comments on constitutional issues in the media. She lives in Herzliya, is married to lawyer Yoram Navot, and has 3 daughters.