12 Facts About Alex Stein

Alex Stein is an Israeli jurist who currently serves as a Justice on the Supreme Court of Israel and a former law professor.

Alex Stein completed his high school studies at the Leo Baeck Education Center in Haifa, and was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in 1976, serving in the C4I Corps.

Alex Stein participated in Operation Litani and the 1982 Lebanon War.

Alex Stein later studied at University College London and earned PhD in law from the University of London in 1990.

Alex Stein clerked for Rachel Sukar, head of the Criminal Litigation Department in the Attorney General's Office, from 1982 to 1983, then for Supreme Court Justice Menachem Elon from 1983 to 1984.

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Alex Stein was admitted to the Israel Bar Association in 1984, and worked as an attorney with two law firms in Jerusalem from 1984 to 1987, specializing in commercial litigation.

Alex Stein was a visiting professor at Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Oxford.

In 2014, Alex Stein was one of the most cited scholars in the field of evidence law in the United States.

In February 2018, Alex Stein was selected to serve as a Justice on the Israeli Supreme Court by the Judicial Selection Committee.

Reportedly, he was questioned by the Judicial Selection Committee about his son who was living in the United States and had not served in the Israel Defense Forces, and Alex Stein assured them that his son would do military service.

Alex Stein is married to Shirley Blaier-Alex Stein, an author, an attorney and autism rights activist, and is a father of five.

Alex Stein is a chess enthusiast, having been a teenage chess champion in the Soviet Union and an arbitrator in the Israeli Chess Federation.