Yosef Harish (Hebrew: יוסף חריש; 15 September 1923 – 6 November 2013) was an Israeli jurist who served as the country's Attorney General between 1986 and 1993.
Born in Jerusalem on 15 September 1923, Harish was educated in a yeshiva.
He studied for bachelor's and master's degrees in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and began working as a magistrate.
[1] His predecessor Yitzhak Zamir had resigned after refusing to abandon an investigation into the activities of the head of Israel's GSS.
[2] A year later Harish set up the Landau Commission to investigate methods used by the GSS.