Yosef Shapira (judge)
{{short description|Israeli attorney and former judge (born 1945)}}
{{About||the Israeli minister, one of the leaders of the National Religious Party and Bnei Akiva|Yosef Shapira}}
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| name = Yosef Haim Shapira
| native_name = יוסף חיים שפירא
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| office = State Comptroller of Israel
| term_start = July 2012
| term_end = July 2019
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| appointer =
| predecessor = Micha Lindenstrauss
| successor = Matanyahu Englman
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|7|5|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Jerusalem, {{flag|Mandatory Palestine}}
| nationality = {{flag|Israel}}
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| children = 3
| education = Hebrew University of Jerusalem (LL.B.)
University of Leicester (M.A. in Criminology)
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| profession = Attorney, judge
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Yosef Haim Shapira ({{langx|he|יוסף חיים שפירא}}; born 5 July 1945) is an Israeli attorney and judge who served as the seventh State Comptroller of Israel from July 2012 to July 2019.
Biography
Shapira was born in Jerusalem. He earned a law degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1971 and in 1972 was certified as a lawyer. As part of his reserve duty, he served as a judge at the IDF's Military Court of Appeals, as a colonel. In 2000 he received a Master's degree in criminology from the University of Leicester in England.
Shapira is married and a father of three children and two grandchildren.{{cite web|url=https://docslib.org/doc/2364338/yosef-shapira|title=Joseph H. Shapira - State Comptroller and Ombudsman of Israel |access-date=2023-08-29}}
Judicial career
Between 2001–2003 he was Vice Chairman of the National Disciplinary Tribunal of the Israeli Bar Association. In July 2003 he was appointed a judge of HaShalom courts in the District of Jerusalem. In May 2005 he was appointed a judge of the District Court of Jerusalem.{{Cite news|url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4187773,00.html|title = מסתמן: השופט יוסף שפירא ימונה למבקר המדינה|newspaper = Ynet|date = 9 February 2012}}
Notable rulings include the opening of the Karta parking lot for businesses on Shabbat, the 2007 ruling in favor of an appointment of an Arab director for the JNF,{{Cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.1423218|title=ביהמ"ש אישר מינוי דירקטור ערבי בקק"ל|newspaper=הארץ|date=5 July 2007|last1=רוט|first1=נורית}} and his 2008 ruling against the dismantling of Hamas in Jerusalem.{{Cite web|url=http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/176537|title=ביהמ"ש דחה הבקשה לפירוק החמאס|date=23 June 2008 }}
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Category:20th-century Israeli judges
Category:State comptrollers of Israel
Category:Lawyers from Jerusalem
Category:Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law alumni
Category:20th-century Israeli civil servants