15 Facts About Yoram Dinstein

Yoram Dinstein was an Israeli scholar and professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University.

Yoram Dinstein was a specialist on international law and an authority on the laws of war.

Yoram Dinstein served as President of Tel Aviv University from 1991 to 1998 and won the 2023 Israel Prize for law research.

Yoram Dinstein was born in Tel Aviv on 2 January 1936.

Yoram Dinstein was Dean of the Faculty Law at Tel Aviv University from 1978 to 1980.

Yoram Dinstein was a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, a Meltzer Visiting Professor of Law at New York University, and a visiting Professor of Law at the University of Toronto.

Yoram Dinstein was President of Israel's national branch of the International Law Association and of the Israel United Nations Association.

Yoram Dinstein served as Chairman of the Israel national branch of Amnesty International and as a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law.

Yoram Dinstein was a member of the Council of the San Remo International Institute of Humanitarian Law.

Yoram Dinstein was the founder and Editor of the Israel Yearbook on Human Rights.

Yoram Dinstein wrote on international law, human rights, and the laws of armed conflict.

Yoram Dinstein headed Israel's chapter of Amnesty International from 1974 to 1976.

Yoram Dinstein told the Israeli Foreign Ministry about the internal activities and contacts of Amnesty International.

Yoram Dinstein later said Amnesty International was "a populist organization very far from everything I believe in".

Yoram Dinstein maintained that use of force in self-defence was only permitted in response to an armed attack, or the "imminence of an armed attack".