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Michael Sfard is an Israeli human rights lawyer specializing in international humanitarian law and the laws of war, with a special emphasis on the law of belligerent occupation.
He has served as counsel in numerous important cases on these topics in Israel, including the successful litigations for the removal of settlements built on private Palestinian lands (such as Migron and Amona), petitions concerning the Separation Barrier (among them the “Alfei Menashe” and the Bil’in cases), and challenges to the Israeli policy of targeted killings and to the constitutionality of the “Regularization” law, which ordered the confiscation of private Palestinian lands and allocated them for the use of Israeli previously unpermitted settlements (so-called “outposts”). He is the legal adviser to several Israeli human rights and humanitarian organizations, as well as peace groups (including Yesh Din, Peace Now, Breaking the Silence, Comet Middle-East and the Human Rights Defenders Fund). He also represents Palestinian communities, and Israeli and Palestinian activists, in addition to providing advice to international human rights and humanitarian NGOs.
Born in 1972, Sfard grew up in Jerusalem, served in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) as a military paramedic. He was a conscientious objector and spent three weeks in military prison because of his refusal to serve in Hebron.
Sfard is a graduate of the law faculty of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and he received his MA degree from the University College of London, (LL.M in international human rights law). In 2013 Sfard won the Emille Grintzweig Human Rights Award for 2012, which is awarded by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel to “an individual or NGO that has made a unique contribution to the advancement of human rights in Israel”. In 2014 Sfard won a fellowship with the Open Society Foundations. The fellowship project examined the last four decades of human rights litigation in Israel on issues related to the occupied Palestinian territories.
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