Adv. Meir Linzen has served as President of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IJL) since 2018. Under his leadership, the IJL has actively advanced legal advocacy on the global stage, submitting briefs and legal opinions to national courts—including in Poland and Germany—constitutional courts such as the U.S. Supreme Court and Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, the European Court of Justice, and international tribunals at The Hague, including the ICC and ICJ.

He is Chairman of Herzog Fox & Neeman, one of Israel’s foremost law firms, where he previously served as Managing Partner for over two decades. He currently leads the firm’s Tax Department. A summa cum laude graduate of Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Law (1980), Adv. Linzen was later awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy by the university in recognition of his contributions to academia and public life in Israel.

Adv. Linzen has held visiting professorships at Tel Aviv University, Bar-Ilan University, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He served on the Executive Board of Tel Aviv University for nearly ten years and continues to serve on its Board of Trustees. He also chairs the Board of Trustees of the university’s Faculty of Law.
A senior figure in the Israel Bar Association, Linzen chairs both its International Relations and Tax Committees and represents the Association on various public and governmental bodies.