A key influence on the legal system in Israel, Cohn created the model of attorney general as it is known to this day.
He served as a Supreme Court justice and figured prominently in his struggle to protect human rights.
Cohn was awarded the Israel Prize for Jurisprudence.
He practiced law in Jerusalem, and when the state was founded he was appointed state prosecutor.
He also served for brief periods as director general of the Justice Ministry and as minister of justice.
Cohn was Israel’s attorney general.
He lectured at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a visiting professor for some 20 years. Cohn was president of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists and president of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel.
He was also a member of the International Commission of Jurists and the International Court of Arbitration.
Milestones in the life of Haim Cohn
Justice Haim Cohn was born in Lübeck, Germany in 1911, and raised in Hamburg.
Arrived in Jerusalem as a yeshiva student.
Returned to Germany two years later to study law.
When the Nazis rose to power, he returned to Palestine.
