Biography
Beinisch was born February 28, 1942, in Tel Aviv. Her father, Aharon Werba, a civil servant, immigrated to Palestine from Poland in 1933. Her mother, Chava, was a kindergarten teacher in Tel Aviv. Beinisch served in the Israeli Defense Forces, where she reached the rank of lieutenant. After being demobilized, she began studying law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
In 1967, she received her Bachelor of Laws degree (LL.B.) from the Hebrew University and two years later she completed her Master of Laws (LL.M.) summa cum laude at the same university, while apprenticing in the Justice Ministry. In 1964, she married Yeheskell Beinisch, a prominent lawyer in Jerusalem. They have two daughters, and two grandchildren.
Beinisch was awarded honorary Doctor of Philosophy degrees by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in June 2010, and Ben-Gurion University in May 2012, as well as an honorary Fellowship by "The Interdisciplinary Center", Herzliya. On November 12th, 2012, she was awrarded Doctor of Philosophy "honoris causa" degree from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Beinisch was awarded "Doctor of Humane Letters-Honoris Causa"by The "Hebrew Union College"Jerusalem,on November 14th,2012. Dorit Beinisch is a member as an Officer at The French "National Order of the Legion of Honour" since December 17th, 2012.
In the fall 2012, she was co-teaching a seminar on national security judging at the Center on Law and Security (CLS) with Prof. Samuel Rascoff at NYU Law as a distinguished global fellow and a senior fellow.
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