Itzhak Nener

Itzhak Nener (; born Yitzhak Nener; 22 August 1919 - 27 April 2012) was an Israeli jurist who co-founded the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists and served as vice-president of Liberal International.

Early life and education Yitzhak Nener was born on 22 August 1919 in Vienna, Austria. As an infant his family moved to the city of Stanisławów in Galicia, Poland, now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. In 1938, at the age of 19, he moved to Mandatory Palestine, making the journey on a ship with almost 1,000 Jewish students from all over Poland enrolled at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He travelled on the ship with fellow student and Zionist activist, Blanca Stein; they married the following year, in 1939. Both of their families, whom they had left behind in Poland, were murdered in the Holocaust. In 2005 at the global congress of WJA in Shanghai, China, Nener received a medal in honour of his contribution to peace and the rule of law.

In June 1999 in Berlin, Nener warned that "there are some very disturbing signs" of rising antisemitism in Germany and across Europe, but that "Germany is one of the few countries in Europe which has adopted legislation" to fight these trends.

Legal career Nener was one of the founders of the Israel Bar Association and served as the first chairperson of the Jerusalem District Committee from 1965 to 1971, before being elected chairperson of the association's national council in 1972, a position he served in until 1987.

In September 2017, the Municipality of Jerusalem announced that a street in the city would be named after Itzhak Nener.

Death He died on 27 April 2012. His remains are at Har HaMenuchot, Jerusalem.