1917 – 2007, a French-Algerian-Israeli lawyer, writer, scholar and politician. He studied Law and Rabbinical Studies in Paris. He was active in the French Resistance in the Maquis of Central France (1942–1945). A lawyer and, later, a judge in the district of the Algiers Court of Appeal (1945–1947), he became a Doctor of Law in 1948 (University of Paris). Chouraqui wrote hundreds of articles in the world press, numerous lectures and books concerning the spiritual and political problems raised by the resurrection of the State of Israel.