Tal Commission Head, Judge Tzvi Tal, Laid to Rest in Jerusalem

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    JERUSDALEM (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – Hundreds turned out in Givat Shaul to pay their respects the former Israeli supreme court justice who headed the commission that granted special exemptions from military service for yeshiva students over a period of ten years.

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    Tzvi Tal died Tuesday morning at the age of 94. He was laid to rest just hours later in the Har Hamenuchos cemetery.

    While Tal was a member of the court that sentenced John Ivan Demjanjuk, known as Ivan the Terrible, for his brutal treatment of Jews during the Holocaust, hewas most well known for the law that bears his name. First enacted in 2002, the Tal Law allowed yeshiva students to avoid serving in the military under certain conditions, but it faced numerous legal challenges and was ultimately declared unconstitutional in 2012.

    A resident of Bayit Vegan, Tal was born in Poland, arriving in Israel as an eight year old. After serving in the Haganah and the IDF, Tal worked as a lawyer for 25 years until his 1978 appointment as a Jerusalem district court judge. He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1994.

    Tal and his wife Chana lost their son Moshe, who learned at Yeshivat Har Eztion, during the Yom Kippur War. According to a tweet by the yeshiva, Tal returned to the yeshiva each year for Yom Kippur davening where he would read the haftara. An announcement of Tal’s death sent out by Yeshivat Har Eztion described him as “a man of truth and judgement, as well as one of the greatest friends of the yeshiva.”

    The funeral of Former High Court Justice Tzvi Tal, at the har HaMenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem on June 22, 2021. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90 *** Local Caption ***
    חברה
    קדישא
    ירושלים
    צבי טל
    שופט
    בית משפט
    עליון
    הר המנוחות
    The funeral of Former High Court Justice Tzvi Tal, at the har HaMenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem on June 22, 2021. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90 *** Local Caption ***
    חברה
    קדישא
    ירושלים
    צבי טל
    שופט
    בית משפט
    עליון
    הר המנוחות
    The funeral of Former High Court Justice Tzvi Tal, at the har HaMenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem on June 22, 2021. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90 *** Local Caption ***
    חברה
    קדישא
    ירושלים
    צבי טל
    שופט
    בית משפט
    עליון
    הר המנוחות

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    Voice of reason
    Voice of reason
    2 years ago

    BDE, what a loss, a person that understood that what keeps klal yisroel alive is not the army, it’s Torah and mitzvahs, and the number one devotion one has is to hashem, not to a country, neither to a movement

    Triumphinwhitehouse
    Triumphinwhitehouse
    2 years ago

    Does he have any descendants? Chareidim don’t appreciate the sacrifice of frum people like him

    Moshe shmeil
    Moshe shmeil
    2 years ago

    He gave rights to those that flaunt their obligations to the country. He let loads of draft dodgers sit around. Why is one blood different to the others? Maybe Hashem was trying to tell him something with his son, Now Ha’kodosh Boruchu can explain it to him in person BDE