The former head of the Supreme Court of Israel, Professor Eliyahu Vinograd, died on the 92nd year of life on January 13.
This is stated in a statement circulated by the law firm Gideon Fisher and Partners, one of whose co-owners was the deceased.
Eliyahu Vinograd was born in Tel Aviv in December 1926. In 1946, after graduating from the Jerusalem College for Mizrahi Teachers, he entered the Higher School of Law and Economics in Tel Aviv, after which he served two years in the Israeli army (1948-1950). In 1952, Grapes received a lawyer's license and joined the service of a Tel-Aviv lawyer's office.
In 1960, he transferred to the civil service as the chief assistant to the prosecutor of Tel Aviv-Jaffa. In 1972, Grapes became the judge of the Tel Aviv Peace Court, and in May 1977 the District Judge of Tel Aviv.
In 1987, Eliyahu Vinograd received the mantle of a judge of the Supreme Court, who headed in two years. In this position he served for seven years.
After retirement, Vinograd was instructed to head several important state and government commissions.
In particular, he directed one of the commissions to verify information about the missing navigator in the city of Ron Arad, the commission for reform of higher education, the commission to investigate the actions of the military and political leadership during the Second Lebanon War, and others.