Zvi Zilbertal

Zvi Zilbertal was born in 1952 in Israel

Zylbertal was born in Jerusalem in 1952 and grew up in the Rehavia neighborhood. Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz was a relative. He attended the Hebrew Gymnasium.

He served in the IDF from 1970 to 1975 as a naval officer and fought in the Yom Kippur War. In 1976 he began literature studies at the Hebrew University, then switched to law and graduated in 1981. He interned at the Supreme Court with Justice Aharon Barak and was admitted to the bar in 1983.

In 1990 he became a judge at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court and its deputy president in 1997. He joined the Jerusalem District Court in 2000, became a permanent judge there in 2001, and later served as its deputy president. He was among the judges who convicted Eli Fimstein of the murder of Hodaya Kedem, and he also lectured on civil procedure at the Hebrew University.

He joined the Supreme Court on 21 February 2012. In March 2016 he unexpectedly announced his retirement, citing workload, and he retired on 10 April 2017. He then worked as an arbitrator and mediator, joined the state inquiry commission on the submarine and vessel purchases in 2022, and was named its chair in 2026.