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Dov Weissglas

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Person.png Dov Weissglas  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
lawyer,  businessman,  SPAD)
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Born4 October 1946
Alma mater Hebrew University of Jerusalem
SPAD for Sharon, Olmert and Netanyahu

Dov Weissglas is an Israeli lawyer and businessman who was involved in the Middle East peace process during the term of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

In 2006, shortly after Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections and took charge of Gaza, Weissglas described Israel’s planned response:

“The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.”[1]

Biography

Dov Weissglas was born in Tel Aviv to an affluent family and grew up in Ramat Gan. After graduating from the Ohel Shem high school, he served in the Israel Defence Forces and began studying law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at age 19.

Legal career

After graduating with an LLB and interning at the Tel Aviv District Court, he received a law licence in 1971. That same year, he began working at the Tel Aviv law firm Moritz & Margolis. In 1978, he became a partner in the firm, and together with Amir Almagor, he acquired the firm in 1984, becoming a senior partner. The firm subsequently became Moritz, Weissglas, Almagor & Co.

As a lawyer, he represented numerous Israeli public figures in court, often in libel suits against newspapers. His clients included Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert, Yisrael Meir Lau, Avigdor Lieberman, and Effie Eitam. He represented two Shin Bet officers tasked with monitoring Jewish extremists before the Shamgar Commission, two Mossad agents captured in Jordan during a failed operation to assassinate Khalid Mashal, the locomotive driver in the HaBonim disaster, the chairman of the organising committee of the Maccabiah Games in the aftermath of the Maccabiah bridge collapse, and Rafi Eitan before the US authorities in the Jonathan Pollard affair. He did military reserve duty in the Office of the Legal Advisor of the Ministry of Defence, where he assisted in collecting material for the Kahan Commission. He was also the licensed manager of the Hessna insurance company in 1991.

Weisglas met Ariel Sharon in 1982, when he was working in the legal department of the Defence Ministry. He prepared the statement delivered by Sharon to the committee of inquiry investigating the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Eventually, Weissglas became Sharon's personal attorney.

In 2002, Weissglas was appointed Prime Minister's Ariel Sharon' head of bureau, serving until August 2004. In this role, he was a diplomatic delegate for negotiating with US National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and US Secretary of State Colin Powell, and was one of the key architects of the Israeli disengagement from Gaza.

He continued to act as a special adviser to the Prime Minister for the rest of Sharon's term, and he remained in this role under Prime Minister Ehud Olmert after Sharon's stroke.

In 2009, he briefly served as an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.


 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Herzliya Conference/200621 January 200624 January 2006Reichman University
Tel Aviv
Israel
A 2006 conference on Israeli security needs.

 

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