Dov Levin
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Dov Levin (Hebrew: דב לוין; December 1, 1925 – June 27[1] or 28,[2] 2001) was an Israeli jurist in the Supreme Court justice in 1982–1995.[2] He served, most notably as one of the judges in the trial of John Demjanjuk.
Dov Levin was born in Tel Aviv to Eliyahu and Dvora Levin,[1] 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.[2] He also went to law school, and continued studying law upon his return to Tel Aviv in 1945.[1] 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.[1]
Levin had two sons, Eliyahu and Assaf, both of them lawyers.[1] He was also the uncle of poet and translator Amasai Levin.
