1. Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin sat on the Regional Labor Courts in Jerusalem and Beersheba from 1990 to 1995, and served as judge on the National Labor Court from 1995 to 2006.
19 Facts About Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin
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Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin served as Vice President of the National Labor Court.
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Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin was the wife of Aharon Barak, former President of the Supreme Court of Israel.
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Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin's parents were Moissei Moshe Ussoskin, an accountant, and Marrusia Miriam Griner, an accountant and department store manager.
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Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin was arrested in 1940 and the family fled to Palestine after his release, arriving in February 1941.
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Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin attended the Beit Ha-kerem High School in Jerusalem, graduating in 1954.
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Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin completed her compulsory service in the Israel Defense Forces from 1954 to 1956, attaining the rank of sergeant.
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Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin married Aharon Barak, whom she had met while both were attending Beit Ha-kerem High School, in September 1957.
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Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin worked as a human genetics research assistant and as a teaching assistant in genetics.
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Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin died on 9 December 2024, at the age of 88.
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Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin clerked for the office of the president of the Supreme Court of Israel, Yoel Sussman, and for the Jerusalem District Attorney's office, between 1977 and 1978.
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Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin passed the Israeli bar in 1978, and worked as a legal assistant to three different presidents of the Supreme Court from 1978 to 1987.
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Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin became Registrar of the Regional Labor Court in Jerusalem in 1987, and in 1990, was appointed a Judge in the Regional Labor Courts in Jerusalem and in Beersheba.
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Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin came to the National Labor Court at a time when workers' rights and the bargaining power of unions were weakening.
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Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin was remembered for "going farther than any other Israeli judge to advance and strengthen the rights of workers".
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Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin ruled in the plaintiff's favor, disallowing the publisher's right to dictate to his employees.
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Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin moved up to a legal assistant position in the Supreme Court at the same time that her husband was a Supreme Court justice.
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Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin was appointed judge of the National Labor Court by her husband, reportedly over the objections of the president of the labor court.
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Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin was cited for her slowness in completing her caseload.