Benjamin Halevy
| Benjamin Halevy | |
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| Date of birth | 6 May 1910 |
| Place of birth | Weissenfels, Germany |
| Year of aliyah | 1933 |
| Date of death | 7 August 1996 (aged 86) |
| Knessets | 7, 8, 9 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1969–1974 | Gahal |
| 1974–1975 | Likud |
| 1975–1977 | Independent |
| 1977–1978 | Democratic Movement for Change |
| 1978–1981 | Democratic Movement |
| 1981 | Independent |
Benjamin Halevy (Hebrew: בנימין הלוי, 6 May 1910 – 7 August 1996) was an Israeli judge and politician.
Halevy was born Ernst Levi in Weißenfels, Germany and educated at the Universities of Freiburg, Göttingen and Berlin. He immigrated to what was then the British Mandate of Palestine in 1933 after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, and studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Halevy was a Magistrate Judge in Jerusalem during the Mandate period, from 1938 until Israel's declaration of independence in 1948. He served as a District Judge and the President of the Jerusalem District Court until 1963 when he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Israel.
Halevy was the sole judge in what became known as the "Kastner trial," a libel lawsuit against Malchiel Gruenwald, a hotelier, who accused Rudolf Kastner of having been a Nazi collaborator. Halevy allowed the scope of the trial to be expanded and ruled that Kastner had indeed, in his words, "sold his soul to the devil." Kastner was later assassinated and Halevy's ruling was mostly overturned by the Supreme Court. The manner in which he conducted the trial was criticized.
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