His memory is saluted. The vice-president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif) Gil Taieb died at the age of 66, the institution announced late Monday evening, 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.
His wife, Karen Taieb, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of Heritage, also had a word for her husband on the social network moment of our lives.”
Founder of the Israel Support Association
There have been numerous reactions since the announcement of Gil Taieb's death. “Committed, charismatic, courageous and caring, he never gave up the smile he always wore, until the last moments of the fight he waged against illness,” according to Crif president Yonathan Arfi. His memory was also praised by the United Jewish Social Fund (FSJU) of which he was vice-president and which said it was “devastated”. 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, for his part, praised his “energy” which “impressed and reassured”. Gil Taieb “made his life a personal and collective fight against the anti-Semitism which still corrodes our society”, reacted for his part the socialist deputy at Paris town hall, Jean-Luc Romero.
Born in Tunisia in 1957, doctor of dental surgery, Gil Taieb also founded the association supporting Israel (ASI France) in 1990.