Uzi Vogelman

Uzi Vogelman was born in 1954 in Tel Aviv

Vogelman was born in Tel Aviv on 6 October 1954. His mother was born in Tel Aviv and his father was a Holocaust survivor. In 1972 he finished Ironi Alef High School, where he studied mathematics and physics.

From 1972 to 1975 he served in the IDF with Nahal and fought in the Yom Kippur War. He earned a law degree at Tel Aviv University and became a lawyer in 1980. He later earned a master's in law at the Hebrew University in 1985 and a master's in public administration at Harvard in 1990.

He joined the State Attorney's Office in 1982 and headed its High Court of Justice Division from 1995. In 2000 he became a judge on the Tel Aviv District Court. He served as an acting Supreme Court justice from 2007 and received a permanent appointment in 2009.

On the court he ruled on immigration and public law, including a 2014 majority opinion that struck down a law on the Holot facility. In 2020 he chaired the Central Elections Committee for the 24th Knesset. He became deputy president in 2022.

He declined to seek the court presidency because of his short remaining term. Since the Judicial Selection Committee did not choose a president, he served as acting president from October 2023 until he retired in 2024. He is married to Liora and has a son and a daughter.