Hanan Melcer

Melcer was part of the decision by the Supreme Court in 2009 to order the government to demolish illegally built Palestinian homes in the West Bank. He was also one of the judges in the controversial ruling on the Immanuel Beit Yaakov controversy.

On 24 June 2007 he was selected by the Judicial Committee to serve as a judge on the Supreme Court. His appointment was historical because it was the first time in decades that a lawyer from the private sector was chosen, and it was part of the judicial shakeup initiated by Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann.

On 27 August 2007, he was sworn in as a justice of the Supreme Court by the President Shimon Peres.

In 1977, he founded his own law firm dealing in infrastructure, communications, corporate, banking, antitrust, securities, and administrative law. As an attorney, he handled the legal aspects of some of Israel's largest infrastructure projects.

In the 1970s, he was active in Dash and was a fierce opponent of the coalition with Begin and his right-wing Likud party in 1977. He was a legal adviser to the Rabin camp of the Labor Party in 1980. Later, he was involved with the Shinui party. In 1996 he also ran in the primaries for the Labor Party, where he later served as the influential chairman of its legal committee until he resigned in 2004, after his name came up as a candidate for the Supreme Court.

Hanan Melcer (Hebrew: חָנָן מֶלְצֶר , born April 1951) is an Israeli judge who currently serves as a justice on the Supreme Court of Israel, and as of October 2017, Deputy Chief Justice.