Yehuda Lancry

Yehuda Lancry was born in 1947 in Bejaeed

Lancry was born in 1947 in Boujad, Morocco. He attended an Alliance high school in Casablanca. He immigrated to Israel in 1965.

In Israel he served in the Air Force and then worked for 6 years as a technician at Rafael. At the same time he studied French literature at the University of Haifa. In 1976 he went to Antibes, France, as a Jewish Agency envoy, studied at the University of Nice and later earned a PhD in French literature.

He headed the Shlomi local council from 1983 to 1992 and chaired the Second Israeli Broadcasting Authority council from 1991 to 1992. He was ambassador to France from 1992 to 1995. In 1996 he was elected to the Knesset for Gesher, serving as Deputy Speaker and chairman of the Ethics Committee.

In 1999 he became ambassador to the United Nations, a post he held during the Second Intifada. He left it in January 2003 and became international relations representative of Alliance Israélite Universelle. In May 2007 he became board chairman of the Channel 2 news company, and in December 2018 he was among the founders of the new Gesher party.