Ya'akov Shimshon Shapira
| Ya'akov Shimshon Shapira | |
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| Date of birth | 4 November 1902 |
| Place of birth | Yelisavetgrad, Russian Empire |
| Year of aliyah | 1924 |
| Date of death | 14 November 1993 (aged 91) |
| Knessets | 2, 3, 7 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1951–1955 | Mapai |
| 1969–1974 | Alignment |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1966–1972 | Minister of Justice |
| 1972–1973 | Minister of Justice |
| Other roles | |
| 1948–1950 | Attorney General |
Ya'akov Shimshon Shapira (Hebrew: יעקב שמשון שפירא, born 11 April 1902, died 14 November 1993) was an Israeli jurist and politician.
Shapira was born in Yelisavetgrad in the Russian Empire (now Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine) in 1902. He studied in a Yeshiva and later studied medicine at the University of Kharkov. He was active in the Zionist socialist Movement and was incarcerated for his activism from 1923 to 1924. In 1924 he immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine and joined a "Conquest of Labor" group in Petah Tikva, where he worked as an orchardman. He was one of the founders of kibbutz Giv'at HaShlosha. He was secretary of Ahdut HaAvoda in Jerusalem and a member of the Jerusalem workers' council.
He studied law at the Hebrew University and was certified as a lawyer. In 1934 he moved to Haifa to practice law, and ran an office there until 1948. He represented the Hagana and other groups before the Mandate authorities. After the establishment of the State of Israel he became the Director General of the Justice Ministry, and was Israel's first Attorney General from 1948 to 1950.
In November 1948 he headed an official investigation into allegations of IDF attacks on civilians.
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