What is Aharon Barak?
{{Infobox officeholder |honorific-prefix = |name = Aharon Barak |honorific-suffix = |image = Aharon Barak.jpg |imagesize = 180px |caption = |office = President of the [[Supreme Court of Israel]] |term_start = 13 August 1995 |term_end = 14 September 2006 |appointer = |predecessor = [[Meir Shamgar]] |successor = [[Dorit Beinisch]] |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1936|9|16|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Kaunas]], [[Lithuania]] |death_date = |death_place = |nationality = Israel |party = |spouse = [[Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin]] |children = 4 |alma_mater = [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] |occupation = |religion = |signature = }} '''Aharon Barak''' ({{lang-he-n|אהרן ברק}}, born '''Erik Brick'''; 16 September 1936) is an Israeli jurist. He is the Professor of Law at the [[Interdisciplinary Center]] in [[Herzliya]]. Barak was President of the [[Supreme Court of Israel]] from 1995 to 2006. Before, he was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel (1978–95), as the [[Attorney General of Israel]] (1975–78), and as the Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1974–75).<ref> {{cite web | url = http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1990_1999/1998/6/Aharon+Barak+-+President+of+the+Supreme+Court.htm | title = Aharon Barak – President of the Supreme Court | publisher = Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs | access-date =21 January 2010 }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Barak, Aharon}} [[Category:1936 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni]] [[Category:Holocaust survivors]] [[Category:Israeli academics]] [[Category:Israeli Jews]] [[Category:Jewish academics]] [[Category:Jewish judges]] [[Category:Lithuanian Jews]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of Israel]] [[Category:People from Kaunas]] [[Category:Chief justices of the Supreme Court of Israel]] {{bio-stub}}