# Dov Levin

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{{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](/source/Supreme_Court_of_Israel) justice in 1982–1995.<ref name="latimes" />
He served, most notably as one of the judges in the trial of [John Demjanjuk](/source/John_Demjanjuk).

==Biography==
Dov Levin was born in [Tel Aviv](/source/Tel_Aviv) to Eliyahu and Dvora Levin,<ref name="news1" /> His father was born in [Russia](/source/Russia) and [immigrated](/source/aliyah) 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](/source/Vilna_Gaon) and residents of Palestine since the mid-19th century.

Levin joined the [Irgun](/source/Irgun) while at the same time working at the headquarters of the [Palestine Police Force](/source/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](/source/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War) he served in the [Israel Defense Forces](/source/Israel_Defense_Forces) as an officer in the [Alexandroni Brigade](/source/Alexandroni_Brigade)'s 35th Battalion. In the reserves, he served in the [Adjutant Corps](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/John_Demjanjuk) and in the same year was responsible for disqualifying the [Kach](/source/Kach_and_Kahane_Chai) party from running for the [Knesset](/source/Knesset).<ref name="latimes" />

Levin was head of the National Council for Prevention of Road Accidents and the [Israel Football Association](/source/Israel_Football_Association) refereeing departments. After retiring from the bench in 1995, he became an [arbitrator](/source/arbitrator).<ref name="news1" />

==Awards and recognition==
In 1997, Levin received the [Yakir Tel Aviv](/source/Yakir_Tel_Aviv) prize.<ref name="ta-muni" />

==References==
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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](/source/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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Category:Judges of the Supreme Court of Israel
Category:Israeli people of Russian-Jewish descent
Category:20th-century Israeli judges
Category:Rehavia Gymnasium alumni
Category:Lawyers from Tel Aviv
Category:Burials at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery

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