The president of the Union of Jews of Libya, Raphael Luzon, , will be an official Jewish representative in the Libyan Senate, able to make suggestions in the process of writing a new constitution in Libya as per an invitation letter by Mohammed Al-Hosh, the president of the High Council of Reconciliation (HCR). Luzon told The Jerusalem Post.
Al-Hosh invited Luzon earlier this month to be an “observer and representative of Libyan Jews” in the country’s Senate.
“As part of the effort to solve the crisis in the state and to ease the suffering of the citizens, and based on the relationship with Raphael Luzon, chairman of the Union of Libyan Jews, and based on his efforts and activities for the good of the nation, we find it important to give him the job of an observer and representative of Libyan Jewry in the Libyan Senate.” The letter from Al-Hosh to Luzon reads.
Luzon told The Jerusalem Post that this is the first time he knows of that a Jewish person is playing such a role in Libya, calling his appointment “historic,” and pointing out that Jews in government are rare in Muslim countries in general.
