Supreme Court Justice and former State Comptroller Eliezer Goldberg, He passed away last Friday at the age of 90, and was laid to rest today (Sunday) at the “Jerusalem Community” eulogy, Mount of Beatitudes, in Givat Shaul in Jerusalem.
The President of the Supreme Court, Judge Esther Hayut, praised him and said: “Today we gathered to accompany the retired Supreme Court Justice, Eliezer Goldberg, on his final journey. “To work for the Israeli public. The summary of his list of projects and the scope of his work during his many years of work in and out of the legal system are inspiring, and intensify the still inconceivable feeling of lack.”
“Judge Eliezer Goldberg was a lawyer; a traffic judge, a judge in the Magistrates’ Courts, the District and the Supreme Court; the State Comptroller; the Ombudsman for Judges; and a member and chairman of many important committees, including “Senior civil servants, where he worked until very recently,” she added.
She added that “being a public servant in the full sense of the word, is reflected, among other things, in the Senior Appointments Committee, where Judge Goldberg set a high and uncompromising standard of honesty, chastity and good administration. Of Jerusalem, in a final farewell to our colleagues, retired Supreme Court justices and judges, who have passed away. [תהילים קכב, ה]. Indeed, in Jerusalem they fulfilled their mission in the public service, in which they were laid to rest forever. Today we accompany Judge Goldberg on his final journey. Dear Eliezer, Thank you for about six decades of faithful legal and public mission. ”
The late Goldberg was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court in 1984, and retired in 1998. Among other things, Goldberg served as chairman of the Central Election Commission, as a member of the Shamgar Committee to Investigate the Massacre in the Cave of the Patriarchs and as the State Comptroller.
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