Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin

Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin
אלישבע ברק-אוסוסקין
Barak-Ussoskin (c.2010s)
Vice President of the National Labor Court
In office
November 2000  October 2006
Appointed byAharon Barak
Personal details
Born
Elika Josephina Ussoskin

(1936-10-13)13 October 1936
Bucharest, Romania
Died9 December 2024(2024-12-09) (aged 88)
Israel
Spouse
(m. 1957)
Children4
EducationM.Sc., zoology, genetics, and chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1963)
LL.B., Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1977)

Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin (Hebrew: אלישבע ברק-אוסוסקין; 13 October 1936 – 9 December 2024) was an Israeli judge. She sat on the Regional Labor Courts in Jerusalem and Beersheba from 1990 to 1995, and served as judge on the National Labor Court from 1995 to 2006. She also served as Vice President of the National Labor Court. Her rulings on labor law and labor relations were said to further the rights of workers more than any other Israeli judge. She was the wife of Aharon Barak, former President of the Supreme Court of Israel.