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Yonathan Arfi (born 14 April 1980) is a French CEO and activist. A member of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France (CRIF, "Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions") since 2002, he was elected as vice-president on 4 February 2014,[1] and ran for president in 2022.[2] On 26 June 2022, he succeeded Francis Kalifat as president of the CRIF.[3]
Yonathan Arfi was born in Toulouse[4] to a Sephardic Jewish family of Algerian and Moroccan descent.[5]
Arfi spent his childhood in the Yvelines. He was a member of the Éclaireuses et éclaireurs israélites de France ("Jewish Guides and Scouts of France"),[5] and obtained his degree at HEC Paris.[4]
From 2003 to 2005, Yonathan Arfi was president of the Union des étudiants juifs de France (UEJF, "Union of French Jewish Students").[5][6][7]
He was a member of the CRIF's executive office in 2007,[8] then vice president from 2014 to 2022.[5][9][10]
As the leader of the association, he began a protest against Dieudonné.[11]
As the vice-president of the CRIF, he took a public stand against Marine Le Pen,[12] condemning antisemitic graffiti at Paris Nanterre University.[13]
He protested against statements made by Éric Zemmour.[14]
Yonathan Arfi participated in the Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU, "Universal Israelite Alliance") as a member of the board of directors. He was also a member of the Oeuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE, "Children's Aid Society").[15]
Shortly after his election as president of the CRIF and following a controversy about an Avignon fresco of Jacques Attali,[16][17] he denounced the worrying rise of antisemitism in France and spoke on the difficulty of being Jewish in current French society during an interview with France Inter.[18][19][20]
On 26 June 2022, Yonathan Arfi was elected president of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France (CRIF, "Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions") and served a 3-year term.[21][22][23][24]
Yonathan Arfi directs a group of companies active in business consulting.[5][25]
He is the younger nephew of French swimmer and Holocaust survivor Alfred Nakache.[26] He has four children.[4]
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