Joel LeviJoel Levi (August 25, 1938, in Kfar Sirkin, League of Nations Mandate for Palestine – June 15, 2014, in Ramat Gan) was an Israeli lawyer. LifeJoel Levi's parents emigrated to Palestine in the 1930s. He studied law in Tel Aviv at the time of the Eichmann trial and completed his legal clerkship with Gabriel Bach. From 1964 he practiced law in his own firm in Tel Aviv. He specialized in restitution proceedings for victims of National Socialism.[1] Since the Washington Declaration in 1998, Levi has also been increasingly entrusted with cases of restitution of looted art.[2][3][4] Levi was a founding member and long-time board member of the German-Israeli Lawyers Association (DIJV/IDJ).[5] He received the Federal Cross of Merit First Class in 2007. Levi was the initiator of the exhibition Anwalt ohne Recht about the fate of Jewish lawyers in the Third Reich and the initiator of the book Zu Recht wieder Anwalt.[6][7] Writings (selection)
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