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...Supreme Court. On his right was a scholarly fellow Justice who, with his impassioned manner and shock of black hair, cut the panel's most arresting figure; on his left, a trim, mustachioed, usually silent retired major general. The three members of the investigative commission-Yitzhak Kahan, 69, Aharon Barak, 46, and Yona Efrat, 56-are known respectively for integrity, independence and intrepidity. They are admired collectively for their dispassionate rectitude. No one had quarreled with their initial selection; few quibbled about their final decision...
...team's tone and agenda were set and its most searching questions asked by Kahan, a Justice of the Supreme Court since 1970, celebrated for his scrupulous modesty. The natural choice to head the investigative commission, he demurred at first, citing two related cases he was involved in. Yet Kahan brought to the task powerful public and private qualifications. He is an authority in all branches of the law, noted for the clarity of his written opinions. Kahan is a withdrawn and deeply religious man: he attends synagogue regularly, eats only kosher food, and conscientiously observes the Sabbath...
...high strung as Kahan is low key, Barak (whose name means lightning in Hebrew) was the panel's conscience, its most strident and at times indignant voice. An international authority on commercial law, Barak offers a dazzling resume. He was, at 32, Israel's youngest full professor, at 38 its youngest Attorney General, and at 42 one of its youngest Supreme Court Justices. He is also, as the Jerusalem Post puts it, "a pillar of probity," a respected champion of individual rights, indifferent to rank and impervious to reputation. As Attorney General, in 1977 he sent to prison...
...colleagues, the commission members wondered. Replied Shamir: "I didn't ask, and I don't recall that it bothered me, since it was clear that everything going on was known to the persons sitting with me in the room." One commission member, Supreme Court President Yitzhak Kahan, pressed Shamir again and again on this point, but Shamir insisted that he had not felt it necessary to raise the matter with Sharon and the others. Shamir also claimed that he did not learn of the massacre until the following...
...Prime Minister's aide-de-camp, Lieut. Colonel Azriel Nevo, to pass along an American diplomat's report of trouble in the refugee camps. Last week Nevo testified that, "as far as I can remember," he had not even talked with Bar-On that Friday. Asked Kahan: "BarOn did not speak with you that evening?" Replied Nevo: "Did not speak. He says that he called me at my home, but I was not there." Pressed Kahan: "There was no conversation, either about the camps or about any other subject?" Said Nevo: "No, no." Begin had told the commission...