Biography
Yerushalmi was born in Poland in 1920. As a teenager, he emigrated to Israel in 1935. A graduate of Tel Aviv's Balfour College, he studied law at the University of Jerusalem and joined Haganah. He served as a law clerk and lawyer from March 1942 to 1947 and then joined the military where he transferred to the Military Advocate General and became JAG to the airforce, later to the navy. In 1957 he was appointed as a judge on the Court of Military Appeals, a position in which he held until launching an enquiry in the USS Liberty incident in 1967.
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