Samuel Tamir

Shmuel Moshe Tamir (Hebrew: שמואל משה תמיר; born Shmuel Katznelson; 10 March 1923 – 29 June 1987) was a prominent Israeli independence fighter, lawyer, and Knesset member. After a successful career fighting the British, he entered the Knesset from 1965 to 1980, rising to become Minister of Justice in the government of Menachem Begin from 1977 until 1980. Tamir was an ardent anti-Nazi, proactively leading legal cases to prosecute perpetrators of the Holocaust and war criminals. Tamir's maverick politics finally led him to become an independent politician after several attempts at forming coalition with nationalist right-wing parties.