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Menachem Mazuz (April 30, 1955) is an Israeli jurist and Supreme Court justice, who served as the Israeli Attorney General in the years 2004–2010.
Mazuz was born in Djerba, Tunisia, the fifth in a family of nine children of the rabbi of one of the island’s Jewish communities. His family immigrated to Israel a year after his birth, settling in Netivot.
Mazuz served his compulsory military service in the IDF Armor Corps, and then studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning his law degree in 1980 specializing in public and administrative law. During his studies, he interned for one year in the Supreme Court with judges Shlomo Asher and Hadassa Ben-Itto and for a year in the State Attorney’s Office High Court of Justice Department with attorneys Michal Shaked and Shlomo Tzur.
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