Meir Shamgar served as President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1983 to 1995, after earlier serving as the Israel Defense Forces' Military Advocate General from 1961 and as Attorney General of Israel from 1968 to 1975. Born in Danzig in 1925, he immigrated to Palestine in 1939 and was active in the Irgun and the Palmach, for which he was arrested by British authorities in 1944 and studied law by correspondence with the University of London while detained in Eritrea. After retiring from the Supreme Court he chaired the 1996 commission of inquiry into the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and received the Israel Prize in 1996 for his contribution to society; he died in October 2019.
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What did the commission chaired by Meir Shamgar conclude about the Rabin assassination?
It found the Shin Bet had failed to protect the prime minister and that security was poorly coordinated before the rally.
After the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a three-member commission headed by former Supreme Court president Meir Shamgar issued its findings in 1996. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that it found the Shin Bet had failed in its primary objective of protecting the prime minister, and that the police and the Shin Bet had failed to coordinate security before the peace rally where Rabin was shot.
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occupation/position claim resolves to: Judge and Jurist
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P27 (country of citizenship): Israel
Wikidata Q782634, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1925
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P569 (date of birth): 1925-08-13
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P570 (date of death): 2019
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P570 (date of death): 2019-10-18
Wikidata Q782634, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Gdańsk
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P20 (place of death): Tel Aviv
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birth name (P1477): מאיר שטרנברג
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