Yedidia Stern

Yedidia Stern (Hebrew: ידידיה שטרן) (born 13 March 1955) is an Israeli jurist and legal scholar.

He is an emeritus professor of law at Bar Ilan University and the president and CEO of the Jewish People Policy Institute.

[8] In 2009, Stern was appointed Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Monash University as part of its Israel Studies program.

[9] In November 2009, Stern was one of four candidates short-listed for the position of Attorney General of Israel but withdrew his candidacy despite support from Israeli justice minister, Yaakov Neeman.

[12] During the countrywide protests over the proposal for judicial overhaul, Stern formed a group of law professors to formulate a solution under the aegis of Israeli president Isaac Herzog.

However, where the decision hinges on Israel's character as democratic and Jewish (as in the case of the Haredi draft, for example), he believes the Knesset should have the last word.

[19] To achieve this, he recommends the embrace of mamlachtiyut, a Hebrew term that roughly translates as statehood, in which partisan differences are set aside for the sake of the state.