Eyal Benvenisti (Hebrew: איל בנבנשתי; born 1959) is an attorney and legal academic, and Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge.
[1] He was formerly Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights at Tel Aviv University's faculty of law.
In addition to teaching and research, he served as director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University (2000–2002).
He is currently a professor of human rights at Tel Aviv University's faculty of law.
He is representing Israel before the International Court of Justice in the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide case brought by South Africa, arising out of Israel's conduct of the military operation in Gaza.