Emi Palmor

Emi Palmor
אמי פלמור‎
Emi Palmor at United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Saint Petersburg, November 2015
Born
Jerusalem
CitizenshipIsraeli
TitleFormer Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Justice
Emi Palmor (left) with Reuven Rivlin granting the president's scholarship for research to students, February 2018
Roy Katz interviewing Emi Palmor, May 2018

Emi Palmor (Hebrew: אמי פלמור; born August 1966) is an Israeli lawyer and senior civil servant who served as the Director General of the Ministry of Justice from 1 February 2014 to September 2019. During her 24 years of civil service, she was appointed time and again by the government to Chair public committees concerning sensitive and controversial social and legal issues in Israeli society, which she led to sustainable resolutions. Palmor is recognized for applying methods of civic engagement and participation in Government processes of policy design, and for promoting a holistic approach to public policy, focusing on prevention and education plans rather than legislation and law enforcement. Palmor is one of the first 20 members of the Facebook Oversight Board.