Avraham Gorali

Avraham Gorali portrait c. 1950

Avraham Gorali (1911–1955) was the first Chief Military Prosecutor of Israel. He helped formulate Israel military justice. He was succeeded by Aharon Hoter-Yishai.^[1]

Gorali was born in Kovel, Poland, studied law in Vilna and moved to Israel in 1934. He worked as research assistant at Hebrew University where his received his doctorate. Gorali founded "Law Library Publication House" and from 1936, handled the cases of Haganah prisoners in British prison and their release. He was killed in 1955 in a road accident.^[2]

References

Military Advocate Generals of the Israel Defense Forces

Avraham Gorali (1948)
Aharon Hoter-Yishai (1948–1950)
Aharon Moyal (1950–1953)
Meir Zohar (1953–1961)
Meir Shamgar (1961–1968)
Tzvi Hadar (1968–1973)
Tzvi Inbar (1973–1979)
Dov Shefi (1979–1984)
Ben-Tziyon Farkhi (1984–1986)
Amnon Straschnov (1986–1991)
Ilan Schiff (1991–1995)
Uri Shoham (1995–2000)
Menachem Finkelstein (2000–2004)
Avichai Mandelblit (2004–2011)
Danny Efroni (2011–2015)
Sharon Afek (2015–)

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