Avigdor Feldman

Avigdor Feldman (Hebrew: אביגדור פלדמן; born 7 July 1948), is a civil and human rights lawyer in Israel.

Feldman is the founder of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)[citation needed] as well as a founding member of B'Tselem.

[1] He has appeared before the bench in many of the significant petitions presented to the Israeli High Court of Justice (Bagatz) regarding the settlements.

In the Tom Hurndall case, a 23-year-old British volunteer for the International Solidarity Movement who was shot and killed by an Israel Defense Forces sniper, Feldman represented Hurndall's brother in an appeal to allow him to enter Israel.

[7] An annual award given to an individual whose courageous activism is at the heart of the human rights movement and in the spirit of Robert F. Kennedy's vision and legacy.