Place of birth Erfoud, Morocco Name Shimon Shetreet 1991–1996 Labor Party | 1988–1991 Alignment Year of aliyah 1949 Role Politician | |
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Date of birth (1946-03-01) 1 March 1946 (age 69) 1992–1993 Minister of Science & Technology Books Judges on trial, Uniform Civil Code for India: Proposed Blueprint for Scholarly Discourse Education Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Chicago Knessets Israeli legislative election, 1988, Israeli legislative election, 1992 | ||
PROF. SHIMON SHETREET, HEBREW UNIVERSITY LAW PROFESSOR- July 15, 2016
Professor Shimon Shetreet (Hebrew: שמעון שטרית, born 1 March 1946) is a former Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios between 1992 and 1996. He is currently the Greenblatt Chair of Public and International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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- PROF SHIMON SHETREET HEBREW UNIVERSITY LAW PROFESSOR July 15 2016
- Early life
- Legal career
- Political career
- Academic career
- References
Early life
Born in Erfoud in Morocco, Shetreet's family made aliyah to Israel in 1949 when he was three years old. He attended a religious elementary school, before studying at a yeshiva, winning the International Bible Contest at the age of 13. He went on to study law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, gaining an LLB in 1968 and LLM in 1970. He then went on to the University of Chicago, where he gained an LLD in 1973.
Legal career
Shetreet began working as a clerk to Supreme Court judge Alfred Witkon in 1967, and was admitted to the Bar Association in 1969. In 1980 he was a member of the Commission on the Israeli Court System, and was involved in founding the Public Law Association in 1987.
Political career
In 1988 Shetreet was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list. After being re-elected in 1992 (by which time the Alignment had merged into the Labor Party), Shetreet was appointed Minister of Economics and Planning and Minister of Science and Technology in Yitzhak Rabin's government. He lost the latter portfolio in June 1993 when it was given to Shulamit Aloni, but also became Minister of Religious Affairs in February 1992. When Shimon Peres formed a new government following the assassination of Rabin, he remained Minister of Religious Affairs, but lost the Economics and Planning portfolio.
In the 1996 elections Shetreet lost his seat and his place in the cabinet. In 1999 he was chosen to be deputy mayor of Jerusalem, a post he held until 2003.
Academic career
Shetreet returned to the Hebrew University to work as a professor of law. He currently heads the Sacher Institute of Legislative Research and Comparative Law, as well as holding the Greenblatt chair. He has also served as a visiting professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Tulane University and the University of San Diego.