Former President of the Israeli Supreme Court, IDC.
Aharon Barak was born in Kaunus, Lithuania and immigrated to Israel in 1947.   He studied Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where, after completing a term of service in the Israeli Defense Forces, he received his Doctorate in Law in 1963.  Thereafter, President Barak continued his relationship with The Hebrew University, serving as a Lecturer, Professor, and Dean of the Law School.
From 1975 he served as Attorney General of the State of Israel.  In 1978 he was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, where he served in the capacity as President from August 1995 until his retirement in September 2006. All these years he remained active in academia through his ongoing teaching relationship with The Hebrew University and Yale University in the United States.  Since 2007 academic year, Prof. Barak is a faculty member at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya.  Prof Barak is a visiting professor at Yale Law School.