# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-turkel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:08:15.006Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacob-turkel"
name: "Jacob Turkel"
slug: "jacob-turkel"
description: "Jacob Turkel was an Israeli judge who was a Supreme Court of Israel Justice. Turkel served as a judge for 38 years, a decade of that time on the Israeli Supreme Court. In June 2010, he was appointed to head the Israeli special independent Turkel Commission of Inquiry into the Gaza flotilla raid."
tagline: "Israeli judge (1935–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jacob_Turkel_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
birthDate: "1935-03-24"
deathDate: "2023-05-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.92
  momentum:             0.03952569169960474
  historical:           4.609144000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "چاكوب توركيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Turkel"
    title: "Jacob Turkel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%A7%D7%91_%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%A7%D7%9C"
    title: "יעקב טירקל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%AF%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Тиркель, Яаков"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%A7%D7%91_%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%A7%D7%9C"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6119377"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump