AVRAHAM MELAMED


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Avraham Melamed

Who would have believed that the day would come when I would sit here, in the office of the minister of justice of the Jewish state, and appoint you, a small and wretched child suffering from malnutrition in the Kovna ghetto, to be a justice of the Supreme Court? This is proof that Hitler did not succeed.
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In WWII the Nazis invaded Lithuania and packed 30,000 Jews into the Kovno ghetto where they were systematically starved and were shot if they tried to escape. Only 3,000 survived, one of who was a little child, Aharon Barak, who would immigrate to Israel and become the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

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  • Born: October 7, 1921
  • Died: December 12, 2005
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Avraham Melamed, Hebrew: אברהם מלמד‎, was an Israeli politician and Holocaust survivor who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party between 1969 and 1984.