Justice Elyakim Rubinstein was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court in 2004. In 2015, he was appointed as Deputy President of the Supreme Court, a position he held until 2017. Prior to his role as a Supreme Court Justice, from 1997-2003, Justice Rubinstein served as the Attorney General of Israel where he participated in negotiations with Syria (1999-2000), in the Camp David Summit (2000), and as the head of the Israeli delegation to numerous conferences about intolerance and antisemitism (2001-2003).
Our Voice of the Fortnight is “The Lachish Story”, a film from the Steven Spielberg Archive at Hebrew University. The film shows Moroccan immigrants’ journey from France to Israel in the early years of statehood, and the adjustment of one family to life in a moshav in the Lachish region.