Elie Yossef

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Elie Yossef

Elie Yossef (also Eli Joseph, ) is a London-born Israeli

Israelis

Israelis are citizens of the modern state of Israel regardless of religious heritage or Ethnicity, including most numerously Jews, Muslims, Arab Christians, Arabs, Druze, Circassians, and others....
educator and political activist.

Eli Yossef grew up in London

London

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and attended the Hasmonean High School

Hasmonean High School

Hasmonean High School is a voluntary aided, comprehensive school, for pupils aged 11 to 18 from Orthodox Jewish families, situated in the London Borough of Barnet....
where he established Betar

Betar

The Betar Movement is a Revisionist Zionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Vladimir Jabotinsky. Betar members played important roles in the fight against the British during the Mandate, and in the creation of Israel....
England

England

Aliya

Aliya may refer to:* Aaliyah, American R&B singer* Aliya , Belarussian R&B singer* Aliyah, Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel.* ST Aliya, a tugboat in service with the Ceylon Navy from 1957 to 1978....
to Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
and served in the Golani

Golani

Golani may refer to:*Golani Brigade, an Israeli infantry brigade*Golani Family, an Indian royal family*Golani Junction, a location in Israel...
and Paratroopers brigades of the Israel Defense Forces

Israel Defense Forces

The Israel Defense Forces , commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew Acronym and initialism Tzahal , are Israel's military forces, comprising the GOC Army Headquarters, Israeli Air Force and Israeli navy....
. After completing his military service, Yossef studied at Machon Meir

Machon Meir

Machon Meir' is a religious Zionist Baal teshuva organization and yeshiva situated in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Moshe, close to Givat Shaul....
and Hebrew University. In 1988, Yossef founded a Youth Aliyah

Youth Aliyah

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Elie Yossef (also Eli Joseph, ) is a London-born Israeli

Israelis

London

Hasmonean High School

Hasmonean High School is a voluntary aided, comprehensive school, for pupils aged 11 to 18 from Orthodox Jewish families, situated in the London Borough of Barnet....
where he established Betar

Betar

England

Aliya

Israel

Golani

Israel Defense Forces

Machon Meir

Youth Aliyah

The Youth Aliyah is a Jewish organization that rescued 22,000 Jewish children from the Nazis during the Third Reich, arranging for their resettlement in Palestine in kibbutzim and youth villages that became both home and school....
(Aliyat haNoar) high school for new immigrants from France. In 1997, he organized a military preparatory program for Jewish students from abroad interested in volunteering in Israel's army. Yossef is a teacher to the Mehi

Magshimey Herut

Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
.

Yossef is a critic of the Israeli government and a frequent protester outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem. One of his major causes is freeing Jonathan Pollard

Jonathan Pollard

Jonathan Jay Pollard is a former United States Navy civilian Intelligence analyst who was convicted of spying for Israel. Pollard waived the right to trial as part of a plea deal for himself and his wife, pleaded guilty and was convicted on one count of spying for Israel....
. In January 2000, Yossef conducted a hunger strike on Pollard's behalf outside of Israel's Parliament. He argued that anyone who passes classified information to the State of Israel regarding enemy intentions to harm Israel is morally innocent even if technically guilty by American law. In 2002 Yossef traveled to numerous Israeli high-schools and spoke of Pollard's plight as a moral national issue. Working with former Prisoners of Zion Natan Sharansky

Natan Sharansky

Natan Sharansky is a notable former Soviet Union dissident, Human rights activism, former Refusenik, Israeli politician and author.Sharansky is chairman of the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center....
and Rabbi Yosef Mendelevitch

Yosef Mendelevitch

Yosef Mendelevitch , was a well-known Jewish Refusenik in the former Soviet Union who gained fame for his adherence to Zionism and public attempts to emigrate to Israel at a time when it was considered to be against the law in the USSR....
, Yossef has led the Israeli campaign to free Pollard until a falling out with Pollard's wife Esther in late 2004.

Yossef has urged the Israeli government to establish what happened to Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg was a Sweden humanitarian who worked in Budapest, Hungary, during World War II to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. Between July and December of 1944, he issued protective passports and housed Jews, saving tens of thousands of Jewish lives....
, a Swedish

Sweden

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diplomat who saved countless Jews from the Holocaust during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
but was arrested following the war by Soviet agents and disappeared.

Yossef ran for Knesset in the 2006 elections

Israel legislative election, 2006

Elections in Israel for the Knesset#Composition of the 17th Knesset Assembly Knesset were held in Israel on 28 March 2006. The voting resulted in a plurality of seats for the then-new Kadima party, followed by the Israeli Labor Party, and a major loss for the Likud party....
on the Herut (Freedom) list. During the election campaign, Yossef had disagreements with other members over what Herut's main focus should be. The party failed to win the minimum number of votes necessary to enter Knesset.

Following the violent confrontation at Amona

Amona

Amona is a communal settlement and Israeli settlement in the central West Bank, on a hill overlooking Ofra. Located within the municipal boundaries of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council, the village was founded in 1997 on a barren hilltop and inhabited by young people from Ofra....
between the Israeli police and settler

Settler

A settler is a person who has human migration to an area and established permanent residence there, often to colonies the area. Settlers are generally people who take up Sedentary and agriculture it, as opposed to nomads....
teenagers in early 2006, Yossef led Mehi

Magshimey Herut

Magshimey Herut is a Zionist movement founded in 1999 by a group of Jewish activists who felt the need for a young adult movement dedicated to the ideals of Revolutionary Zionism, being aliyah, social justice and the territorial integrity of the Land of Israel, rather than the State of Israel....
activists on a three week hunger strike vigil protesting violence between Jews. The activists displayed banners and handed out fliers calling on the Israeli government and settler leadership to seek out ways to avoid future bloodshed.

Yossef has called on the government of Israel to cut diplomatic ties to Russia

Russia

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due to Russia's involvement in Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
's nuclear development program. Yossef told Israel National Radio's Yishai Fleisher

Yishai Fleisher

Yishai Fleisher is an internet radio personality and the Director of Programming at Arutz Sheva's Israel National Radio. Fleisher is also director of - an organization dedicated to encouraging Jewish immigration to Israel and facilitating a renewed sense of Zionism called "Neo-Zionism"....
that "the Jewish People must find the moral courage to stand up to super-powers in such situations."

Yossef actively opposed the Camp David Accords

Camp David Accords

The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David....
with Egypt

Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
and Israel's subsequent withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula

Sinai Peninsula

The Sinai Peninsula or Sinai is a triangular peninsula in Egypt. It lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, forming a land bridge between Africa and Southwest Asia....
). Yossef has referred to himself as a "Humanitarian Zionist" and a "Revolutionary Zionist".

Yossef now works as a realtor and worker. In August 2005 he founded the Eli Joseph Jerusalem Real Estate company.

Elie Yossef

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