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Hadassa Ben-Itto was born on 16 May, 1926 in Brzeziny, Poland, is an Israeli author and jurist (1926–2018). Discover Hadassa Ben-Itto's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?

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Occupation Author and jurist
Age 91 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 16 May 1926
Birthday 16 May
Birthplace Brzeziny, Poland
Date of death 15 April, 2018
Died Place Jerusalem
Nationality Poland

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1920

She married Gershon Ben-Itto (born 1920) in 1950 and had a daughter, Orly, in 1957.

1926

Hadassa Ben-Itto (הדסה בן-עתו; May 16, 1926 – April 15, 2018) was an Israeli author and jurist.

She was best known for her bestselling book The Lie That Wouldn't Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Ben-Itto was born on May 16, 1926, in Brzeziny, Poland, to David Lipmanowicz (1904–1994) and Dvora Broder (1906–1988), both natives of Brzeziny.

Her father worked as a building contractor.

1934

With a flair for courtroom drama, Ben-Itto centers the book on the 1934 trial in Bern, Switzerland, where the local Jewish community took the local Nazi party to court for publishing the Protocols.

While the lower court judge ruled that the Protocols was a work of plagiarism and constituted indecent literature, an appeals court threw out the claim of obscenity while agreeing with the lower court that the Protocols was "absolutely unjustified and outrageous insults and defamation".

1935

The family immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1935, where another daughter, Nira, was born in 1937.

1948

Ben-Itto graduated from the Ma'aleh religious high school in Jerusalem and was an officer in the Israeli army during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

After the 1948 war, Ben-Itto studied history, psychology and English literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1954

She earned her law degree at Tel Aviv University in 1954 and took post-graduate courses in law and criminology at Northwestern University of Chicago and the University of Denver.

1955

She was admitted to the Israel Bar Association 1955.

For the next five years, she worked as a lawyer in private practice, specializing in criminal law.

1960

Ben-Itto was appointed as a judge in Tel Aviv Magistrates' Court in 1960.

1965

In 1965 and 1975 she was a member of Israel's delegation to the United Nations General Assembly, holding the temporary rank of ambassador.

1970

In 1970 she moved to the Tel Aviv District Court.

1971

Between 1971 and 1974 she also taught criminal law at the Bar-Ilan University law school.

1980

While conducting a bank robbery trial in July 1980, she survived a bombing attack on her home, which may have been related to the trial.

In 1980 she was appointed acting judge in the Israeli Supreme Court, and in 1988 became deputy president of the Tel Aviv District Court.

1982

The couple divorced in 1982.

She also represented Israel at international events, including the 1982 UNESCO Conference on Human Rights in Paris.

1988

From 1988 to 2004, she served as president of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists.

1991

She took early retirement from the court in 1991 in order to write her book, The Lie That Wouldn't Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

During her tenure as a judge, Ben-Itto was appointed to head several government committees, including a committee on prostitution in Israel convened by the Ministry of Justice and a committee on patient rights convened by the Ministry of Health.

She was a member of committees dealing with prison reform, probation, and patient rights.

Desiring to write a book for the general public, she took early retirement in 1991 and spent six years writing The Lie That Wouldn't Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

1998

From 1998 to 2002, Ben-Itto was one of the 17 international arbiters (and only woman) on the Claims Resolution Tribunal in Zurich, which adjudicated claims against Swiss banks on behalf of Jewish depositors killed in the Holocaust.

The book was published in Hebrew in 1998 and has since been translated into ten languages, including German, Russian, Dutch, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Spanish, English, Arabic and Persian.

1999

She was the winner of the 1999 Zeltner Prize for outstanding Israeli jurists, and a 2003 citation of merit by the Israel Bar Association.

Ben-Itto began to research The Protocols of the Elders of Zion during her years on the bench, using her free time and court vacations to peruse the topic in footnoted academic studies.

She found that not only was the subject little-known by Jews at large, but that historical and modern-day antisemitism draws from the Protocols.

2004

In 2004 she was elected honorary president, as well as head of a committee to combat antisemitism.

2006

After the publication of her book, Ben-Itto would frequently speak and write about the relationship between antisemitism and current events, such as the 2006 Lebanon War and the Arab world protests of 2010–2011.

2018

Ben-Itto died on April 15, 2018, in Jerusalem, at the age of 91.