Ze'ev Segal

Ze'ev Segal was born in 1947 in Tel Aviv

Ze'ev Segal was born in Tel Aviv in 1947 to Leah and Zvi Segal, a lawyer. He attended the HaCarmel elementary school and Ironi Alef high school, where he studied in the Middle East studies track.

From 1965 to 1968 he served in the IDF as a military correspondent. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1982 he received a doctorate in law from Tel Aviv University.

He worked as an assistant to Shimon Peres when Peres was Minister of Communications and Transport. In March 1973 he held the last comprehensive interview with David Ben-Gurion. He taught law and public policy at Tel Aviv University, focusing on constitutional law, administrative law, public ethics and media law.

From 1985 to 1997 he was a public representative on the Israel Press Council and sat on its ethics tribunal. He helped draft the Kinneret Covenant and served on several public committees on media and law. He was married to photographer Lily Segal and had a son, Hadar.

He died in 2011. A hall at Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Social Sciences and the Forum of Law and Society were named after him.