Born in Poland in 1930, Theodor Meron is a survivor of a labor camp during World War II, he was a refugee in 1945 in Mandatory Palestine and later became an Israeli citizen when the state was founded, in 1948. Meron was legal adviser to the Israeli government in the 1960s and ambassador in the 1970s before giving up his Israeli citizenship. He presided over several international tribunals in The Hague. An internationally recognized law expert, he now holds American and British citizenships and teaches at the University of Oxford, where he lives most of the time. He is currently working on an autobiography titled A Thousand Miracles: From the Holocaust to Trying War Crimes.
In May 2024, as an expert for the International Criminal Court (ICC), he endorsed prosecutor Karim Khan’s assessment that “there are reasonable grounds to believe” that the leaders of Hamas (now dead), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant bore criminal responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity. On November 21, 2024, arrest warrants were issued.
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