Israel's Top Echelon of Democracy Attends Schechter Graduation

Honoring retired Justice Prof. Ithak Zamir at the ceremony, were Chief Justice Aharon Barak, retired State Comptroller Mirian Ben Porat, and a number of Supreme Court Justices and colleagues of Zamir. As guest speaker, Prof. Zamir reminisced about his first years in Tel Aviv as a child, arriving in Israel from Poland in 1934. He was teased for his light-colored hair, which was not accepted easily by his neighborhood peers. He related that this "difference" wounded his pride, which healed with time, but the lesson learned on those Tel Aviv streets - that of the importance of nurturing the notion of mutual respect - was never forgotten by Zamir. He went on to become one of Israel's most respected figures in Israeli jurisprudence.