Dalia Dorner

Dalia Dorner (Hebrew: דליה דורנר; born March 3, 1934) was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1993 to 2004.

Biography

Dalia Dorner (née Dolly Greenberg) was born in Istanbul, Turkey. Her father, a wood merchant, Levy Greenberg, immigrated there from Odessa. Her family immigrated once again in 1944, this time to Mandatory Palestine, where her father died shortly after. Her mother sent her to a Youth Aliyah boarding school in Nahariya, from which she continued to the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa.

During her compulsory service in the IDF, she started her law studies in Tel Aviv. There she met her future husband, Shmuel. They married in 1958 and have two sons. After the army, she completed her law studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Legal career

Dorner worked for the Israel Police for a period, and then re-enlisted as an IDF officer in the Military Advocate General, rising up through the ranks to the position of Chief Military Defense. In 1974 she was appointed as a judge on the Military Court of Appeals, with the rank of Colonel. She was the first Israeli woman, not serving in the Israeli Women's Corps, to reach the ranks of Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel.