Former judge Vardi Zeiller dies

Jerusalem judge oversaw major government probes of police corruption, construction disaster

By ToI Staff 3 April 2013, 3:16 am Edit
Judge Vardi Zeiller attends a committee meeting at the Knesset on March 26, 2008. (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)
Judge Vardi Zeiller attends a committee meeting at the Knesset on March 26, 2008. (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)

Former judge Vardi Zeiller passed away on Tuesday. He was 79.

Zeiller was born and raised in Jerusalem and served for many years on the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court and as head of the Jerusalem District Court.

In the 1980s, he was a member of a government commission of inquiry regarding the stock exchange crisis of the period.

Later, Zeiller headed a government probe of the Versailles wedding hall disaster and another commission of inquiry, named for him, which probed charges of wide-spread corruption in the Israel Police’s southern branches. Israel Police chief Moshe Karadi resigned in the wake of the latter commission’s findings.

Zeiller also issued a report that was highly critical of police wiretaps in an investigation of former MK Haim Ramon.

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