Biography
Rabin was born in Kibbutz Na'an (1967), part of the third generation to kibbutz founders. He graduated Giv'at Brenner high school in 1985 and served in the IDF as a Military Police investigation officer from 1985 to 1990. He is a reserve service court-martial judge with the rank of major.
Rabin obtained his LL.B. from the College of Management Law School (1995). He worked as a lawyer in the Yuval Levy & Co. law firm in Tel Aviv from 1995 to 1997. Shortly after that he attended Tel-Aviv University, earning his LL.M. degree in 1997 and JSD (doctorate) degree in 2002. His LL.M. thesis focused on the constitutional right of access to courts. His JSD thesis focused on the constitutional right to education. Both were supervised by Daphne Barak-Erez, and the two dissertations were published as books in 1997 and 2002.
He was editor of Hamishpat Law Review (2005) and the Hapraklit Law Review (The Israeli Bar Law Review) (2005-2015). In 2008 Rabin, together with Yaniv Vaki published a textbook on criminal law. A second edition of the book's two volumes was published in 2009 and the third edition, adding a third volume, was published in 2014.
Rabin served as dean of the Haim Striks School of Law at the College of Management from 2011 to 2015.
His main teaching and research fields are criminal law; administrative law; constitutional law; economic, social and cultural rights; and the right to education. His books and articles have been cited in judgments of Israel's Supreme Court.
In October 2015 Rabin was appointed legal adviser of the Israeli State Comptroller. In 2019 after the appointment of State Comptroller Matanyahu Engelman he resigned his post. In October of that year he was appointed as the president of the College of Management.
Yoram Rabin is married and has three children and continues to be a member of kibbutz Na'an.
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