Reuven Abergel (Hebrew: ראובן אברג'ל, Arabic: رَؤوبين أبيرجل; born December 26, 1943) is a Moroccan-Israeli social and political activist and a co-founder and former leader of the Israeli Black Panthers.
Biography
Reuven Abergel was born in 1943 in Rabat, Morocco, the fourth of eight children. He immigrated to Israel with his parents and seven siblings in 1950. The family was sent to the immigrant tent camp in Pardes Hana. Later they moved to the seamline Jerusalem neighborhood of Musrara, a former Palestinian neighborhood whose residents were forced to abandon their homes following the 1948 War.
Political activism
In response to the Wadi Salib riots in Haifa, Abergel began to distribute leaflets around his neighborhood. He co-founded the Israeli Black Panthers[1] following the arrest of his friends. He became a leader of the movement and his home became its headquarters. He was present at the group's meeting with then-Prime Minister Golda Meir.[2][3][4] Since then Abergel has been active in the struggle for social justice and peace in Israel/Palestine as a member of various groups and movements. He currently serves on the board of the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition and was elected to the leadership of Tarabut ("connection"), a joint Jewish-Palestinian political party for peace and equality in Israel.
See also
References
- ^ Reuven Abergel (26 June 2020). "'Our ideology is our pain': Notes of an Israeli Black Panther". +972 Magazine.
- ^ "Israeli "Black Panthers" Meet with Prime Minister Meir to Discuss Mizrahi Jews". Center for Israel Education. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ Yaacov (19 May 2013). "Golda Meir: The Israeli Black Panthers Aren't Nice". Israel's Documented Story. Israel State Archives. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ Herschtal, Eric (29 June 2010). "Israel's Black Panthers Remembered". The New York Jewish Week. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
External links
- Interview with Reuven Abergel in Arabic with English subtitles.
- Reuven Abergel (6 May 2008). שישים שנה למדינת ישראל שישים שנה לגלות יהודי מדינות ערב והאסלאם בישראל [Sixty Years of the State of Israel, Sixty Years of Exile for Jews from Arab and Muslim Countries] (in Hebrew). Kedma. Archived from the original on 25 February 2012.