Topic: Aharon Barak

Aharon Barak (Hebrew: אהרן ברק‎, born September 16, 1936) is a professor of law at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and a lecturer in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Yale Law School and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Aharon Barak was President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1995 to 2006.

Aharon Barak (Brick) was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, the only son of Zvi Brick, an attorney, and his wife Leah, a teacher. After the Nazi occupation of the city in 1941, the family spent three years in the Kovno ghetto. He was smuggled out in a sack at the age of five. At the end of the war, after wandering through Hungary, Austria, and Italy, Barak and his parents reached Rome, where they spent the next two years. In 1947, they received travel papers and immigrated to Palestine. After a brief period on a moshav, the family settled in Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood.

Barak is married to Elisheva Ososkin, former vice president of the National Labor Court, with whom he has three daughters and a son, all trained in the law.