Amnon Straschnov (; born July 24, 1947) is a retired

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Biography

Amnon Staschnov was born in

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. After graduating from

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in 1964, he went on studied law in the

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as part of the

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program. He completed a commander's course in the

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and participated in combat in the

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area during the

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. After receiving a BA in law in 1968, he joined the military prosecution. During his legal internship he also acted as a football referee, including refereeing matches in the

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, then the top division, and the State Cup. Staschnov attended The JAG School at the

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as an Israeli military student. He lives in

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with his wife Miriam and has 4 sons.

Judicial career

Straschnov served as a military lawyer, and was a prosecutor for the IDF Northern Command. He served as Chief Military Prosecutor and graduated from Graduate Officer Course of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School. He was president of the Military Courts in the West Bank from 1982 to 1984, and served as

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of the IDF from 1986 to 1991, during the

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. In 1991 he was selected by the Judicial Committee to serve as a judge on the Tel Aviv District Court, a position from which he retired in 2002. He is the author of ''Justice Under Fire'' (1994, Hebrew). Straschnov was critical of the Israeli police's use of leaks in the financial scandal involving Israeli Prime Minister

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. He was President of the Israeli Institute of Commercial arbitration and is affiliated with the

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References

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