The vice-president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif) Gil Taieb died at the age of 66. Crif saluting a ‘tireless activist, fervent defender of Israel and Jewish community’ “This is an immense loss for the Jewish community and its institutions.
His disappearance leaves a huge void,” Crif said on its social networks. The imam of Drancy, Hassen Chalghoumi, for his part greeted a “friend and a brother”, whom he had known for ‘more than twenty years’ Former Europe Minister Clément Beaune praised his “energy” which “impressed and reassured”. The United Jewish Social Fund (FSJU) of which he was vice- president and which said it was ‘devastated’ by his death. He also founded the association supporting Israel (ASI France) in 1990.