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Justice Yaakov Tirkel gave an interview to the lawyer Ilan Bombach, who wrote a Hebrew article in the Tel Aviv Bar Bulletin, "Haglima"; A translation from Hebrew: "I want to be convinced that my verdict is right.... In most cases, we will reach the legal box quite easily. When I don't like the result I reached.... I am ready to do "eights in the air" to find another legal way that will bring me to a more just result .... According to my perception, the justice that the court does and projects should be human justice, which is not only the result of a logical analysis but also comes from the depths of the heart." Published in Bataun HaGlima 23 (July 1999-5799), p. 6."

Death

Former High Court of Justice judge Jacob Turkel passed away on 29 May 2023 at the age of 88. He was born in Tel Aviv in 1935 to Mordechai and Clara Turkel, who immigrated from Austria. He studied law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. At age 32 he was appointed as a judge at the Beersheba Magistrate Court, then became president of the Beersheba District Court and, finally, in 1995 was called to be a justice at Israel's High Court of Justice, where he served for 10 years. Jacob has spent nearly 40 years of his life on the bench. In June 2010, he was appointed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to head the Israeli special independent commission of inquiry, referred to as the Turkel Commission, into the Mavi Marmara incident, during which the Turkish ship attempted to break the naval blockade of Gaza and was raided by an Israeli naval commando unit. After his retirement from the bench, Judge Turkel continued to make an important contribution to the State of Israel. https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%A7%D7%91_%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%A7%D7%9Chttps://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/r17a4zfi2