Hanan Melcer
Israeli judge
Hanan Melcer (Hebrew: חָנָן מֶלְצֶר; born 12 April 1951) is an Israeli judge who served as a justice on the Supreme Court of Israel and Deputy Chief Justice.
Biography
Hanan Melcer was born in Tel Aviv to Holocaust survivors from Poland. He attended high school at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, and studied law at Tel Aviv University in the Atuda program, where he also later taught as a Law Professor. Melcer received BA in law with honors and a master's degree in statutory law. After graduating, he enlisted in the IDF in the Military Advocate General's Office, serving as a military prosecutor and reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Political and legal career
In 1977, he founded his own law firm dealing in infrastructure, communications, corporate, banking, antitrust, securities, and administrative law. As an attorney, he handled the legal aspects of some of Israel's largest infrastructure projects.
In the 1970s, he was active in Dash and was a fierce opponent of the coalition with Begin and his right-wing Likud party in 1977. He was a legal adviser to the Rabin camp of the Labor Party in 1980. Later, he was involved with the Shinui party.
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