Israeli jurist and Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel Jacob Turkel (March 1935 – May 29, 2023) was born in Israel. 38 years of Turkel’s judicial career were spent in the Israeli Supreme Court, where he spent ten of those years. He was chosen to lead the Turkel Commission of Inquiry into the Gaza flotilla raid, an Israeli special independent commission, in June 2010.
Turkel served as a Regional Court judge beginning in 1967, sitting on a number of tribunals including the Shalom Court. He presided over the Beersheba District Court from 1980 to 1995, taking a break from his position for two of those years to work as an interim justice on the Supreme Court. Since 1995 to 2005, Turkel presided over the Israeli Supreme Court.
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Turkel participated in a committee from 2010 to 2018 that was in charge of screening candidates for top government positions. Turkel and his wife Miriam were wed for 65 years before Miriam passed away in 2018. He left two daughters behind. From 1967 to 1995, he presided over a number of courts as a judge, including a two-year tenure as an acting Supreme Court justice.
In 1995, Turkel was appointed as a full member of the Supreme Court, where he remained until 2005.