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Michael Sfard, (born 1972), is a lawyer specializing in international human rights law and the laws of war. He has served as counsel in various cases on these topics in Israel. Sfard has represented a variety of Israeli and Palestinian human rights and peace organizations, movements and activists at the Israeli Supreme Court.〔 ==Life and work== Michael Sfard was born in 1972 in the Rehov Brazil public housing complex in Kiryat Hayovel, Jerusalem. When he was five, his family moved to an apartment building in Ma'alot Dafna that was home to many journalists.〔〔 Sfard completed a law degree (LLB) at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a reservist for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the Gaza Strip while at law school.〔 He served in the Nahal Brigade of the IDF, mostly in Lebanon, as a military paramedic.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.justvision.org/portrait/99695/interview )〕 According to Sfard, before his reserve duty in Gaza, he believed "left-wing soldiers" should agree to patrol the Palestinian territories "to stop bad things from happening", rather than be conscientious objectors.〔 While serving in Gaza his views changed, and in a later reservist session, Sfard became a conscientious objector and spent three weeks in military prison because of his refusal to serve as escort for Israeli settlers in Hebron.〔〔 He was released from the army in 1994 and attended a course on Jewish-Arab encounters at Neve Shalom.〔 He started his legal apprenticeship with Avigdor Feldman in 1998 and worked with him for several years as an attorney.〔 In 2000, Sfard and his wife moved to London, "ostensibly" so that he could do a master’s degree, but he says it was really "to get away" from Israel.〔〔 He studied international human rights law, "discovered the subject () wanted to work in" and returned the following year having decided that emigration from Israel was "a tragedy".〔〔 He completed his Master of Laws at University College London.〔 Shortly after Sfard returned, he attended the first conference of the group Courage to Refuse, "saw 200 people who thought and felt like () did", and decided to be an activist.〔 In early 2004, Sfard opened his own office in Tel Aviv.〔 Sfard has described Shulamit Aloni as a "major influence" who introduced him through her activities to the world of human rights in Israel.〔 Sfard's has expressed his views on the role the media play in his work. He feels that "the media are an important part of the work. They are a tool." In addition, he said that media can influence or create the debate. But, he also said that "I, as any lawyer, have a fear of cameras entering the sanctified zone between the lawyer and the client."〔 Articles by Sfard have been published by ''Haaretz'',〔 * * * * * * * 〕 ''The Independent'' and ''The Observer''. Sfard is the grandson of sociologist Zygmunt Bauman and writer Janina Bauman on his mother's side and of Communist Yiddish author David Sfard and Cinema Studies Professor Regina Dreyer on his father's side.〔(Interview with Zygmunt Bauman )〕 His father Leon is a mathematician and his mother (Anna Sfard ) is a Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Education at the University of Haifa.〔(Anna Sfard )〕 His parents immigrated to Israel from Poland at the end of the 1960s, after they were involved in the University of Warsaw student rebellions against the Communist Government in 1968. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Sfard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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