Noam Sohlberg (born 22 January 1962, ) is an Israeli jurist who has served as a Deputy President of the

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since 2025. He also serves as the Chairman of the

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for the elections to the 26th Knesset and as a member of the Judicial Selection Committee. He is considered as a conservative in the

Early life

Sohlberg was born and raised in

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. His parents, Shaul and Yehudit Sohlberg, were Jewish immigrants from the

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. He attended a religious high school in Haifa, and studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion in

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. He did his mandatory military service in the Israeli Air Force, and completed his service with the rank of

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Legal career

After his military service, Sohlberg studied law at the

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, during which he served as a teaching and research assistant at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law and as counsel in the Israeli National Council for the Promotion of the Rule of Law and Democracy. He graduated with an LLB in 1990, and completed a two-year internship in the civil law department in the State Attorney's Office,

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, and

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's Office between 1990 and 1991. He was admitted to the Israel Bar Association in 1991, and served as a legal assistant to Attorney General Yosef Harish from 1991 to 1993, then as a prosecutor at the State Attorney's Office from 1993 to 1994, before serving as a senior legal assistant to Attorneys General Michael Ben-Yair and Elyakim Rubinstein between 1994 and 1998. He was also a lecturer at the

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Faculty of Law from 1996 to 1999. In 1998, he completed a

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at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was appointed a judge on the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court. He became a judge on the Jerusalem District Court in 2005, and was appointed a judge on the Supreme Court in 2012. He began serving on the Supreme Court on 21 February 2012. Sohlberg serves as Deputy President of the Supreme Court since 10 April 2025, with Yitzhak Amit who is the President of the Supreme Court since 13 February 2025. According to the Supreme Court's seniority system, he is expected to serve as President of the Supreme Court from 2028 to 2032.

Personal life

Sohlberg lives in

, an

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in the

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. He is married to Meira, with whom he had five daughters. His daughter Hadas suffered from Rett syndrome, and died in 2018 at age 33.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sohlberg, Noam 1962 births Living people Israeli Orthodox Jews Judges of the Supreme Court of Israel Israeli people of Dutch-Jewish descent Yeshivat Har Etzion alumni People from Alon Shvut