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Aharon Barak (Hebrew: אהרן ברק) (born September 16, 1936) is a professor of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and President of the Supreme Court of Israel since 1995. He was smuggled out of the Kovno Ghetto in a suitcase as a child and hidden by a Lithuanian farmer. He immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1947.
Barak is well-known for championing an activist judiciary that has interpreted Israel's basic law as its constitution and challenged Knesset laws on that basis. Under his term the Supreme Court has issued controversial decisions on the nature of the state and the ability of both the Knesset and the Prime Minister to implement their decisions. Barak announced his retirement at the end of May 2006 leaving the Israeli Supreme Court a far different place.
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- Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs biography
- [http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/8145.html The Judge in a Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2006)
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