Yoram Dinstein

Yoram Dinstein was born in 1936 in Tel Aviv

Yoram Dinstein was born in Tel Aviv in 1936 to Haim and Riva. He attended Ironi Alef High School and served in the IDF.

He earned a law degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1958 and interned at the Supreme Court. He received a master's degree in law from New York University in 1961 and a doctorate in 1964.

From 1966 to 1970 he was a consul in New York and a member of Israel's delegation to the UN. In 1970 he joined the law faculty of Tel Aviv University, where he became a full professor in 1974. He served as dean of the law faculty, then as rector, and later as president of the university.

He taught twice at the U.S. Naval War College and was a visiting professor in New York and Toronto. He founded and edited the Israel Yearbook on Human Rights and headed Israel's branch of Amnesty International from 1974 to 1976. He wrote on international law, human rights and the laws of armed conflict.

He won the Israel Prize for law research in 2023. He died in 2024.