{{Short description|Israeli Supreme Court justice (1925–2001)}} thumb|Dov Levin (1988) '''Dov Levin''' ({{Langx|he|דב לוין}}; December 1, 1925 – June 27<ref name="news1" /> or 28,<ref name="latimes" /> 2001) was an Israeli jurist in the Supreme Court justice in 1982–1995.<ref name="latimes" /> He served, most notably as one of the judges in the trial of John Demjanjuk.
==Biography== Dov Levin was born in Tel Aviv to Eliyahu and Dvora Levin,<ref name="news1" /> His father was born in Russia and immigrated to Palestine with his family as a child, and his mother was born in Palestine to a family of rabbis and scholars, descendants of the Vilna Gaon and residents of Palestine since the mid-19th century.
Levin joined the Irgun while at the same time working at the headquarters of the Palestine Police Force.<ref name="latimes" /> He also went to law school, and continued studying law upon his return to Tel Aviv in 1945.<ref name="news1" /> During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War he served in the Israel Defense Forces as an officer in the Alexandroni Brigade's 35th Battalion. In the reserves, he served in the Adjutant Corps.<ref name="news1" />
Levin had two sons, Eliyahu and Assaf, both of them lawyers.<ref name="news1" /> He was also the uncle of poet and translator Amasai Levin.
==Legal career== In 1951 Dov Levin joined the Israel Bar Association. In September 1966, he became a judge.<ref name="latimes" /> He also served in that capacity in the Military Court of Appeals as part of his reserve service.<ref name="news1" /> Levin presided as a judge in the Tel Aviv magistrate court until May 1972, when he was promoted to the district court. In 1979 he became vice-president of the court. In March 1981, he became a provisional Supreme Court justice and was given a permanent tenure on February 15, 1982.<ref name="news1" /> In 1988, he presided over a special court that judged John Demjanjuk and in the same year was responsible for disqualifying the Kach party from running for the Knesset.<ref name="latimes" />
Levin was head of the National Council for Prevention of Road Accidents and the Israel Football Association refereeing departments. After retiring from the bench in 1995, he became an arbitrator.<ref name="news1" />
==Awards and recognition== In 1997, Levin received the Yakir Tel Aviv prize.<ref name="ta-muni" />
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<ref name="news1">{{cite web|url=http://www.news1.co.il/Archive/006-D-135-00.html?tag=04-35-12|title=Levin Dov|date=July 7, 2001|publisher=News1|accessdate=2011-03-15|language=he}}</ref> <ref name="latimes">{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jul-02-me-17881-story.html|title=Dov Levin; Israeli Judge Disqualified Kahane's Kach Party|date=July 2, 2011|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2011-03-15}}</ref> <ref name="ta-muni">{{cite web|url=http://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/Download/יקירי%20העיר%20משנים%20קודמות.pdf|title=''Yekirei HaIr'' from Previous Years|publisher=Tel Aviv Municipality|page=22|accessdate=2011-03-15|language=he|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628214309/http://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/Download/%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%99%20%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%A8%20%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9D%20%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA.pdf|archive-date=2011-06-28|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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