Sylvain Cypel

Sylvain Cypel is senior editor at the French newspaper Le Monde.^[1]

Cypel is the holder of degrees in International Relations, Sociology and Contemporary History.^[1] Cypel, whose father, Jacques Cypel, editor-in-chief of Unzer Wort (Our Word), the world's last Yiddish-language daily newspaper until it was closed down in Paris in 1996,^[2] was a leader of the Zionist movement in France.

Cypel lived in Israel for 12 years.^[3] He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was a member of Matzpen. In 1970, together with Menahem Carmi, he split away from Matzpen, and established the Workers' League (commonly known as Avantgarde, trotskist movement).^[4]

In 1998 he left Courrier International magazine where he had worked for five years as editor-in-chief, and joined Le Monde as deputy head of the international section.^[1][3] He is currently Le Monde's New York correspondent.^[5]

Works

• Cypel, Sylvain (2006). Walled: Israeli society at an impasse. ISBN 9781590512104. 

External links

• Ismael, Tareq Y; Ismael, Jacqueline S (2011). Government and Politics of the Contemporary Middle East: Continuity and Change. p. 338. ISBN 9780415491440. 
• Hilliard, Constance B (2009). Does Israel Have a Future?: The Case for a Post-Zionist State. ISBN 9781597976404. 

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