Yoram Dinstein (Hebrew: יורם דינשטיין; 2 January 1936 – 10 February 2024) was an Israeli scholar and professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University.
[2][3][4][5] He served as President of Tel Aviv University from 1991 to 1998 and won the 2023 Israel prize for law research.
[1] From 1980 to 1985 he was the Rector of Tel Aviv University (1980–85), and he served as its president from 1991 to 1998 (following Moshe Many, and succeeded by Itamar Rabinovich).
[16] This has led Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini to characterize Dinstein as an Israeli "spy" within Amnesty International.
[17] Dinstein used his position as “chairman of the Israel national section of Amnesty” to criticize the work of Felicia Langer, a lawyer who was advocating for rights of Palestinians in Israeli courts.
[19] Regarding Israeli settlements, Dinstein argued they were only illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention when they benefit from government subsidies or coordination, but that when Israeli settlers act on their own initiative without government help, then such settlements don't violation the Geneva Convention.