The vice-president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif), Gil Taieb died at the age of 66. Born in Tunisia in 1957, a doctor of dental surgery, he also founded the association supporting Israel (ASI France) in 1990.
The Élysée hailed an “ardent humanist, herald of the fight against anti-Semitism and all forms of hatred” and a "tireless activist, fervent defender of Israel and the Jewish community. The Minister of Culture Rachida Dati expressed her "great sadness,' and her colleague Aurore Bergé praised him as "an ardent defender of our republican and universalist values. ”“His disappearance leaves a huge void," Crif said on its social networks. "Committed, charismatic, courageous and caring, he never gave up the smile he always wore until the last moments of the battle he led against illness.'