Aharon Barak

Aharon Barak
אהרן ברק‎
President of the Supreme Court of Israel
In office 13 August 1995 – 14 September 2006
Preceded by	Meir Shamgar
Succeeded by	Dorit Beinisch
Personal details
Born	(1936-09-16) 16 September 1936 (age 87) Kaunas, Lithuania
Nationality	Israeli
Spouse	Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin
Children	4
Parent(s)	Zvi Brick, Leah Brick
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Aharon Barak (Hebrew: אהרן ברק‎; born 16 September 1936) is an Israeli lawyer and jurist who served as President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1995 to 2006. Prior to this, Barak served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1978 to 1995, and before this as Attorney General of Israel from 1975 to 1978.

Barak was born with the name of Erik Brick in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1936. Having survived the Holocaust, he and his family later immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1947. He studied law, international relations and economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and obtained his Bachelor of Laws in 1958. Between 1958 and 1960, he was drafted into the Israeli military.

From 1974 to 1975, Barak was dean of the law faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.^[1] Barak is currently a law professor at Reichman University in Herzliya, and has taught at institutions including Yale Law School, Central European University, Georgetown University Law Center, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.