Justice Hanan Melcer is the former Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Israel. Before his appointment to the Court, he founded Melcer & Co., a leading law firm specializing in public law, communications law, infrastructure law and commercial law, and was involved in the legal aspects of major infrastructure projects in Israel, including the Cross-Israel Highway, Ben-Gurion Airport Terminal 2000, the underwater communications cable initiative, the Israeli civil satellite initiative, and the Tel Aviv light rail project. He also lectured at leading law faculties in Israel.