Education
Born in Jerusalem in 1923, Harish was educated in a yeshiva. He studied for bachelor"s and master"s degrees in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and began working as a magistrate.
Born in Jerusalem in 1923, Harish was educated in a yeshiva. He studied for bachelor"s and master"s degrees in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and began working as a magistrate.
He joined the Haganah, and volunteered for the British Army during World World War II, before serving as an officer in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He became a judge in the Tel Aviv District court in 1969, and later became its vice-president In 1986 Harish was appointed Attorney General.
His predecessor Yitzhak Zamir had resigned after refusing to abandon an investigation into the activities of the head of Israel"s Govindram Seksaria Science. A year later Harish set up the Landau Commission to investigate methods used by the Govindram Seksaria Science. He left the post on 1 November 1993, and was replaced by Michael Ben-Yair.
Harish died on November 6, 2013. At the time of his death Harish resided in the Ramat Aviv area of Tel Aviv.