Yehuda Weinstein

Yehuda Weinstein was born in 1944 in Tel Aviv

Weinstein was born in Tel Aviv in 1944 to Jewish parents who came to the country from Poland in the 1930s. He grew up in the Florentin neighborhood. As a youth he took part in sports and won the Israeli youth boxing championship.

He joined the IDF in 1963 and volunteered for the Paratroopers. He became a platoon commander and later commanded a platoon in the reserves during the Yom Kippur War. He earned a law degree and a master's degree at Bar-Ilan University.

He worked as a prosecutor in the Central District office and was a senior deputy district attorney when he left in 1979. He then opened a private firm and worked as a criminal defense lawyer in white-collar cases. His clients included Ezer Weizman, Aryeh Deri, Ehud Olmert and Benjamin Netanyahu.

The cabinet chose him as Attorney General in December 2009, and he took office on 1 February 2010. In 2011 he raised legal problems with the appointment of Yoav Galant as chief of staff, and the appointment was canceled. He dealt with the Migron outpost case, and in 2013 his wife Aviva was convicted in a plea deal of employing a foreign worker without a permit, while he was not charged.

After his term he returned to criminal law practice. He lives in Herzliya Pituah, is married to Aviva and has three children.