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Elyakim Rubinstein


Elyakim Rubinstein (Hebrew: אליקים רובינשטיין‎‎, born June 13, 1947) is the Vice President of the Supreme Court of Israel. Beforehand, he served as the Attorney General of Israel from 1997 to 2004. Rubinstein, a former Israeli diplomat with the rank of ambassador and long-time civil servant, has had an influential role in that country's internal and external affairs, most notably in helping to shape its peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan

Born in Tel Aviv and raised in Givatayim, Elyakim Rubinstein graduated the Tzieltin religious high school in Tel Aviv. He earned his bachelor's degree in 1969 cum laude from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Hebrew language, Arabic and Arabic literature and law, and a master's degree in 1974 in contemporary Jewry.

Rubinstein began his career as a lecturer in political science at Bar-Ilan University at the age of 22.

He subsequently was named a legal advisor to the Ministry of Defense under Moshe Dayan, who regarded him as "a young man with a brilliant legal mind." He then followed Dayan to Ministry of Foreign Affairs when Dayan was named foreign minister in 1977. From then until 1979 he was a member of Israel's delegation to the peace talks with Egypt, which led to the signing of the Camp David Accords between the two countries. In 1980 he became an assistant director-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in charge of implementing the normalization of relations with Egypt.


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