An Israel Judge “feels perfectly at home” in American courts. Judge Helmuth Lowenberg of the District Court of Tel Aviv declared here at the conclusion of a nine-week visit to the United States as guest of the American Jewish Committee. He praised American courts for carrying out “the liberties and free traditions of the common law in its truest form,” adding that although four systems of law are competing for adoption in his country “the courts of Israel are following the courts of the United States in leaching its citizens the true meaning of respect for law and order.”
The Israel jurist who was the youngest judge in the British Empire when appointed to the bench in Palestine in 1946 at the age of 28, said that Israel has made great strides in stream lining its law and its legal procedures. “Israel unhesitatingly abolished bigamy in any form.” Judge Lowenberg reported, “and will not tolerate it even for its Moslem citizens. In addition, Israel has established full equality of men and women, the only country in the East to do so.”
During his stay in the United States, Judge Lowenberg visited with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, and sat on the bench with General Sessions Judge Abraham Geller in Manhattan, Federal Judge Phillip Forman of Trenton, and with Judges in Chicago. Cleveland and Boston.
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