Former Supreme Court justice and state attorney Edna Arbel died at the age of 82 on Wednesday.

Arbel served as state attorney from 1994 to 2004, after which she served on the Supreme Court until 2014.

She was born in Jerusalem in 1944 to a Czech-born father, Yitzhak, and a Hungarian-born mother, Tova.

Arbel was admitted to the bar in 1969 and worked for a few years at Tel Aviv’s Hayak law firm before joining the Central District Office of the State Attorney in 1972, and eventually became district attorney in 1984.

During her time at the office, Arbel was requested by the Justice Ministry to serve on several ad hoc committees, among them the committee that investigated the 1984 Bus 300 affair, involving the hijacking of a Tel Aviv to Ashkelon bus by Palestinian terrorists, and their subsequent execution by Shin Bet agents and the cover-up.

Arbel was also on the staff of the Kahan Commission — the state commission of inquiry investigating the 1982 massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut.

In 1988, she became a judge at the Tel Aviv District Court, overseeing a variety of civil and criminal cases, and then in 1996 was appointed as state attorney, a position she filled for........

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