Haim Cohn
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| Date of birth | 11 March 1911 |
| Place of birth | Lübeck, German Empire |
| Year of aliyah | 1930 |
| Date of death | 10 April 2002 (aged 91) |
| Place of death | Jerusalem,Israel |
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| 1952 | Minister of Justice |
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| 1950–1960 | Attorney General |
Haim Herman Cohn (Hebrew: חיים הרמן כהן, born 11 March 1911, died 10 April 2002) was an Israeli jurist and politician.
Haim Cohn was born in Lübeck, Germany in 1911 to a religious family. He was chairman of a World Agudath Israel branch in Hamburg. In 1930 he immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine and studied at Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva. He was also a Hazzan in Mea Shearim. He later returned to Germany to study law at Frankfurt University. He returned to Palestine in 1933 as a lawyer and with a PhD in law. In 1936 he was certified as a lawyer and the following year he opened an office in Jerusalem.
After the establishment of the State of Israel, he was appointed manager of the legislation department of the Ministry of Justice, and later became State Attorney. In 1949 he was made CEO of the Ministry of Justice and Attorney General of Israel a year later. As Attorney General, he decided to indict Malchiel Gruenwald, starting the Rudolf Kastner trial and decided to ignore the (British based) law "and refrained from pressing charges on the conduct of homosexual relations between consenting adults."
In 1952 he was also Minister of Justice, without being an MK. In 1960 he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Israel, a position he held until his retirement in 1981.
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