The Ministry of Justice (, Misrad HaMishpatim; ) is the Israeli government ministry that oversees the Israeli judicial system.
History The office was established with the establishment of the Provisional Government in 1948. The first minister who headed it was Pinchas Rosen, and at the beginning of his career he had only three employees. The first goal of the office was to create continuity in the activity of the essential legal institutions during the transition period from British rule. In particular, there was a need to fill the positions of judges in the courts, as the British and Arab judges left. The appointment of the first judges of the Supreme Court in its incarnation as an Israeli court was approved by the Provisional Government and the Provisional Council of State in July of that year. In 1948, the Office of the General Custodian was also staffed.
Another goal that stood before the eyes of the heads of the ministry in the early years of the State of Israel was the formation of Israeli laws that would replace the Ottoman and Mandatory legal systems. However, the connection to British law was severed only in 1980, with the enactment of the Law on the Foundations of Law, which repealed a section of the Palestine Order in Council of 1922 that stated that where provisions were not established in the local law, the courts would rule according to English common law and the rules of equity; the new law instead directs courts to rule according to the doctrines of Mishpat Ivri (non-religious aspects of the Halakha). Also, even nowadays, more than 70 years after the establishment of the State of Israel, laws enacted by the mandatory legislature or new versions of such laws (such as the Torts Ordinance, the Evidence Ordinance or the Municipalities Ordinance) remain in force. The last piece of Ottoman legislation, the Mecelle, was abolished in 1984.
In 1949 the office consisted of three main departments: consulting, legislation and advocacy. The office also included the administrative departments: land registrar, general guardian and general registrar. 506 employees worked in the office. In April 1949, the prosecutor's office and the general registrar moved to Jerusalem.
Structure The Office of the State Attorney Israel Money Laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority Freedom Of Information Unit Commission for Equal Rights of Persons with Disabilities The Population and migration Tribunals Israeli Corporations Authority Public Information Unit (Freedom of Information) Department of Policy Planning and Strategy Land Registry and Settlement of Rights Legal Aid Privacy Protection Council The Internal Audit Regulatory Unit The Guardian General and Director of Inheritance Affairs The Anti-Racism Coordinating Government Unit The Commissioner of Business Service Providers The Inspector for Complaints Against the Israel Security Agency (ISA) Interrogators The Ombudsman of the State Representatives in the Courts The Regulation of Professions Division Public Defense The Real Estate Valuation Division (The Government Appraiser) The Sharia Courts Ombudsman of the Israeli Judiciary Israel Patent Office Foreign Relations Unit Finance Department Digital Technologies & Information Internal Auditing31 Units of the Ministry of Justice Office of the State Attorney The Office of the State Attorney constitutes a part of the law enforcement system, representating the State before the courts. The Office of the State Attorney is headed by the State Attorney and is subject to the Attorney General's directives. The State Attorney has four deputies: Criminal Matters Deputy, Civil Matters Deputy, Economic Enforcement Deputy and Special Matters Deputy.About The Office of the State Attorney
List of ministers The Minister of Justice (, Sar HaMishpatim) is the political head of the ministry. Unlike other ministries, there has never been a Deputy Minister.
#MinisterPartyGovernmentTerm startTerm endNotes1Pinchas RosenProgressive PartyP, 1, 214 May 19488 October 19512Dov YosefMapai38 October 195125 June 19523Haim CohnNot an MK325 June 195224 December 1952–Pinchas RosenProgressive Party4, 5, 6, 724 December 195213 February 19564David Ben-GurionMapai713 February 195628 February 1956Serving Prime Minister–Pinchas RosenProgressive Party, Liberal Party7, 8, 928 February 19562 November 1961–Dov YosefMapai10, 11, 122 November 196112 January 19665Ya'akov Shimshon ShapiraMapai13, 14, 1512 January 196613 June 1972–Ya'akov Shimshon ShapiraMapai1512 September 19721 November 19736Haim Yosef ZadokAlignment16, 1710 March 197420 June 19777Menachem BeginLikud1820 June 197724 October 1977Serving Prime Minister8Shmuel TamirDemocratic Movement for Change1820 June 19775 August 19809Moshe NissimLikud18, 19, 20, 2113 August 198016 April 198610Yitzhak Moda'iLikud2116 April 198623 July 198611Avraham SharirLikud21, 2230 July 198622 December 198812Dan MeridorLikud23, 2422 December 198813 July 199213David LibaiLabor25, 2613 July 199218 June 199614Yaakov NeemanNot an MK2718 June 199610 August 199615Benjamin NetanyahuLikud2718 June 19964 September 1996Serving Prime Minister16Tzachi HanegbiLikud274 September 19966 July 199917Yossi BeilinOne Israel286 July 19997 March 200118Meir SheetritLikud297 March 200128 February 200319Tommy LapidShinui3028 February 20034 December 200420Tzipi LivniLikud, Kadima305 December 20044 May 200621Haim RamonKadima314 May 200622 August 2006–Meir SheetritKadima3123 August 200629 November 2006acting–Tzipi LivniKadima3129 November 20067 February 200722Daniel FriedmannNot an MK317 February 200731 March 2009–Yaakov NeemanNot an MK3231 March 200918 March 2013–Tzipi LivniHatnuah3318 March 20134 December 201423Ayelet ShakedThe Jewish Home, New Right3414 May 20152 June 201924Amir OhanaLikud34 5 June 201917 May 2020 25Avi NissenkornBlue and White35 17 May 2020 1 January 2021 –Benny GantzBlue and White35 1 January 2021 1 April 2021 acting26Benny GantzBlue and White35 28 April 2021 13 June 2021 27Gideon Sa'arNew Hope36 13 June 2021 29 December 2022 28Yariv LevinLikud37 29 December 2022
See also Ministry of justice Politics of Israel
References
External links Official website All Ministers in the Ministry of Justice Knesset website