Moshe Ben-Ze'ev was an Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i jurist who served as Attorney General

Attorney General of Israel

The Attorney General of Israel stands at the head of the legal system of the executive branch and the head of the public legal establishment, in charge of protecting the rule of law and as such entrusted with protecting the public interest from possible harm by government authorities...

 between 1963 and 1968.

Previously Ben-Ze'ev worked as a judge in the Haifa District

Haifa District

Haifa District is an administrative district surrounding the city of Haifa, Israel. The district is one of six administrative districts of Israel, and its capital is Haifa...

 court, and had been closed to the ruling Mapai

Mapai

Mapai was a left-wing political party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in 1968...

 party in the 1950s. He replaced Gideon Hausner

Gideon Hausner

Gideon Hausner was an Israeli jurist and politician. Between 1960 and 1963 he served as Attorney General, and was later elected to the Knesset and served in the cabinet....

as Attorney General in early 1963, after Hausner had resigned to enter politics. After leaving the Attorney General post, Ben-Ze'ev started a private law firm with Aryeh Kamar, and in 1980, headed a commission to investigate abuse of civil servants who had exposed corruption.