اليهودي الفلسطيني رحل عن 70 عاما Ilan Halevi, Jewish member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, dies in Paris
Ilan Halevi, Jewish member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, dies in Paris Halevi, who was also a member of Matzpen, a now-defunct Israeli socialist anti-Zionist organization, filled various top positions in the PLO. By Ofer Aderet | Ilan Halevi, a Jewish Palestinian member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, died Wednesday in Paris at the age of 70. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed his condolences in a statement released by the Palestinian News Agency WAFA. Halevi, who was born in 1943 to a Jewish family in Nazi-controlled France, moved to Israel in 1965. “I came to Israel because in Algeria I discovered the importance of the Palestinian problem. I sat there in coffee houses, I heard people, I spoke with intellectuals and I understood that the Palestinian question preoccupies the people of the Arab world. It is really in the center of their obsessions. I decided I want to study this reality up close and from the inside…I wanted to study ...