Menachem Mazuz (Hebrew: מנחם מזוז) (born 1955) is an Israeli jurist, who currently serves as Israel's Attorney General. Hebrew redirects here. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A jurist is a professional who studies, develops, applies or otherwise deals with the law. ... In most common law jurisdictions, the Attorney General is the main legal adviser to the government, and in some jurisdictions may in addition have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions. ...

Mazuz was born in Djerba, Tunisia. His family emigrated to Israel during his childhood, settling in Netivot. Djerba [1] (also transliterated as Jerba, Jarbah or Girba جزيرة جربة) is the largest island off North Africa, located in the Gulf of Gabes off the coast of Tunisia. ... STOP THE WAR NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HIJOS DE PUTAAAAAAA ISRAEL=TERRORISTAS. WHAT IS THE WORLD AND THE AMERICANS DOING NOW? SEND THEM BACK TO AUSWITS ... Netivot (נתיבות) is a city in the Southern District of Israel in Israel. ...

Mazuz served his compulsory military service in the IDF Armored Corps, and then studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning his law degree in 1980 specializing in public and administrative law. Conscription is a general term for involuntary labor demanded by some established authority, e. ... The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is one of Israels oldest, largest, and most important institutes of higher learning and research. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

Upon graduation, he worked in the Ministry of Justice for several years in a number of tasks, including processing petitions to the Supreme Court. During this time he was also teaching public and administrative law at the Hebrew University. From 1991 through 1995, he served as one of the advisors coordinating legal aspects of Israel's negotiations with Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. In 1995, he was appointed Deputy Attorney General, and served in that position for ten years. The Supreme Court (Hebrew: בית המשפט העליון, Beit Hamishpat Haelyon ) is at the head of the court system in the State of Israel. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The West Bank The Palestinian National Authority (PNA or PA) is a semi-autonomous state institution nominally governing the bulk of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (which it calls the Palestinian Territories). It was established as a part of Oslo accords between the PLO and Israel. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In January 2004, Mazuz was appointed Attorney General. Seen as a career civil servant with little political or criminal-law experience, the circumstances of his appointment drew considerable interest because Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his sons were under investigation by the Attorney General's office for campaign-finance irregularities relating to his 1999 campaign for leadership of the Likud party. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...   (Hebrew: , also known by his diminutive Arik אָרִיק) (born February 27, 1928) is a former Israeli politician and general. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Likud (Hebrew: ליכוד, literally means consolidation) is a hawkish centre-right political party in Israel. ...

When Mazuz's predecessor Elyakim Rubinstein resigned to accept appointment to the Supreme Court, Mazuz was chosen by Justice Minister Yosef Lapid; his selection and confirmation were carried out without the involvement of Sharon or vice-premier Ehud Olmert (also a target of the campaign-finance investigation) who both abstained in order to avoid a conflict of interest. Elyakim Rubinstein (born 1947) was the Attorney General of Israel from 1997 to 2004. ... Yosef (Tommy) Lapid (in Hebrew יוסף (טומי) לפיד, b. ... Ehud Olmert (IPA ; Hebrew: אהוד אולמרט; born September 30, 1945) is the 12th and current Prime Minister of Israel. ... Abstention is a term in election procedure for when a participant in a vote either does not goes to vote (on election day) or, in parliamentary procedure, isnt absent during the vote, but does not cast a ballot. ... A conflict of interest is a situation in which someone in a position of trust, such as a lawyer, a politician, or an executive or director of a corporation, has competing professional and/or personal interests. ...

Upon taking office, Mazuz vigorously pursued the case against Sharon, earning him contrasts in the media with Rubinstein, who had been accused of moving too slowly on the matter. In the summer of 2005, he secured the indictment of Ariel Sharon's son Omri on corruption charges, although Ariel Sharon himself and his other son, Gilad, were not (as of 2005) charged. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Omri Sharon (Hebrew: עמרי שרון, born August 8, 1964) is the son of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and a former member of the Likud party in the Israeli Knesset. ... Gilad Sharon is the son of Ariel Sharon, who is the former Prime Minister of Israel. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Mazuz adopted a relatively moderate legal approach towards right-wing hardliners opposing Israel's unilateral disengagement plan. While stating that measures will be taken against violent demonstrators, and that detained protestors will not be given a collective pardon, he allowed for much freedom of speech and demonstration. Thus, common slogans claiming "Sharon is a dictator" were not regarded as illegal incitement. After the successful and relatively peaceful completion of the pullout in September 2005, Mazuz said that it was freedom of demonstration which prevented the operation from escalating into a violent one. Israels unilateral disengagement plan (termed in Hebrew: תוכנית ההתנתקות Tokhnit HaHitnatkut or תכנית ההינתקות Tokhnit HaHinatkut in the Disengagement Plan Implementation Law), also known as the disengagement plan, Gaza Pull-Out plan, and Hitnatkut) was a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, adopted by the government and enacted in August 2005, to... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in September September 28 : Constance Baker Motley September 25 : M. Scott Peck September 25 : Don Adams September 20 : Simon Wiesenthal September 14 : Robert Wise September 10 : Hermann Bondi September 8 : Donald Horne September 7 : Moussa Arafat...

Mazuz faced harsh criticism from right-wingers following his decision, given in January 2005, according to which Israeli Arabs are allowed to buy lands owned by the Jewish National Fund. Some have accused Mazuz of incompliance with Israel's image as a Jewish state. 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in January • 29 Ephraim Kishon • 25 Philip Johnson • 23 Johnny Carson • 22 Parveen Babi • 20 Jan Nowak-Jeziorański • 17 Virginia Mayo • 17 Zhao Ziyang • 15... The Israeli Arabs, or 1948 Palestinians, are those Arabs who remained inside the borders of what would become Israel after 1948, when most Arabs fled the country in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War (see also Nakba). They make up roughly 20% of Israels population. ... The Jewish National Fund (Hebrew: Keren Kayemet LeYisrael) is an organization founded in 1901 at the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basle. ...

Mazuz has come under criticism from human rights groups for allowing Israeli police to employ violence against demonstrators in the evacuation of Amona. Amona is a religious settlement in Samaria in the West Bank, on a hill overlooking the long established Jewish settlement of Ofra. ...

A resident of Jerusalem, he is married with two children. Jerusalem (Hebrew:  , Yerushaláyim or Yerushalaim; Arabic:  , al-Quds (the Holy); official Arabic in Israel: أورشليم القدس, Urshalim-al-Quds (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names) is the capital and largest city[1] of the State of Israel with a population of 724,000 (as of May 24, 2006[2...

Sources

• Official (English) biography, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, January 26, 2004
• Israeli attorney general is faced with decision on fate of Sharon, Baltimore Sun, March 30, 2004