For now, Bronfman replaces Wiesel on fund
by World Jewish Congress President Edgar Bronfman will temporarily replace Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel on the Swiss humanitarian fun, Wiesel resigned from the seven-member Swiss-Jewish board May 6, shortly after accepting the job. He told the Jerusalem Post that
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Switzerland's Federal Council named the four Swiss members on April 16. The fund's president is Rolf Bloch, head of the Swiss Jewish community.
In the last two months, the board has lost two of the original choices for the three Jewish seats. The first choices were Wiesel, U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce Stuart Eizenstat and Likud Knesset member Avraham Herschson. Eizenstat declined, and was replaced by National Religious Party elder statesman Josef Burg.
The World Jewish Restitution Organization, which Bronfman also leads, will name a permanent replacement for Wiesel at its board meeting in Jerusalem on June 2, WJC Executive Director Elan Steinberg said.
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