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Zohar, Meir (Misha)

Zohar, Meir (Misha)


Son of Dov Boris and Susya. He was born in the city of Dubno in Russia in 1928. In 1928, he completed his studies in a high school in his city and was later accepted to the University of Warsaw as a law student, and he was given full Stefandia because he excelled in his studies In 1935 he studied in the Institute of Jewish Wisdom in Warsaw and belonged to the Zionist Students Movement, and in 1935 he published his doctoral dissertation on the topic “The Value of the Entrepreneur in the Political Economy.” After graduating he served in the Polish army and attained the rank of lieutenant in the Artillery Corps. He married a wife and immigrated to Israel two years later, where he worked in administrative work and reached high positions (March 1948), and during the War of Independence he was appointed as an officer with the rank of captain in the IDF. He belonged to the Department of the Maintenance Service. At the end of the war, this service became one of the wings of the engineering corps, and then Meir was appointed to the rank of Major. During his military service he passed examinations and in 1950 he was granted a license to serve as an attorney in the State of Israel. In that same year (1950) he was assigned to the headquarters of the Military Advocate General as a legal adviser. He was later appointed deputy chief military prosecutor and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 1952 he was appointed vice-president of the Supreme Court in the army and in May 1953 he was appointed chief military prosecutor. In the same year he was invited as a lecturer on military law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also in Tel Aviv. During this period he began preparing the Military Justice Law, which was approved by the Knesset in 1955. He was a member of the Legal Council and was also elected to the management of the Criminology Society. He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1958. He participated in an international conference of jurists held in Jerusalem. During this period, a booklet was distributed among the conference participants, called the LawcJusticecMilitarycs’IsraelconcInfluencecTheircandcLawcMilitarycincTrendsModernc. In May 1961, Meir represented Israel and the IDF in an international congress to discuss military law and war laws, and the congress was held in Florence, Italy, and was elected to the congressional council in the last year of his life, Where he worked with devotion and enthusiasm to submit it to the Knesset for approval, but due to his sudden demise, on July 5, 1961, he was not granted a legal approval date and was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul. His estate contains articles published in various journals (the “Hapraklit”, “Systems”, “Law and Justice”, “Israel Police Quarterly”). Emissions Advocate, in collaboration with the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University Brioslim, established a fund totaling 2,000 pounds to be granted scholarships investigator, who as part of his doctoral work in-law will deal with the military. Meyer’s library was also donated to the Faculty of Law of the University in Tel Aviv

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