Jewish lawyer to serve as France's first female speaker

Published date30 June 2022
Braun-Pivet, the 51-year old granddaughter of Jews who fled Eastern Europe for France in the 1930s, is a member of the centrals Ensemble coalition of President Emmanuel Macron, which recently lost its majority in parliamentary elections

Braun-Pivet, who entered politics in 2017, is part of the legislature's France-Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group and has visited Israel three times.

The mother of five children is a former criminal lawyer who has also served as the...

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