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Ruth Gavison is Haim H. Cohn Professor Emerita of Human Rights at the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and the Founding President of Metzilah, a center for Zionist, Jewish, Humanist, and Liberal Tought. She has written extensively on human rights, Israeli society, and Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. She served as a member of the Winograd Commission, which investigated the 2nd Lebanon War (Sept. 2006- Jan. 2008).