Overview
- Ofer Bronchtein, whose death in Paris at 69 was announced Monday by the Forum International for Peace in the Middle East, spent decades pushing for a two‑state solution.
- He founded and led the Paris‑based forum he co‑created in 2002 with Palestinian partner Anis AlQaq to keep Israeli‑Palestinian dialogue alive.
- After the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, he held repeated talks with Emmanuel Macron and was reported as an unofficial adviser who pressed for France’s recognition of the State of Palestine at the UN in September 2025.
- His activism stretched from defying an Israeli ban on contacts with the Palestine Liberation Organization in the 1980s to working with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin during the Oslo peace process in the 1990s.
- Tributes followed from the Élysée and French officials, and his funeral is set for Wednesday at Paris’s Père‑Lachaise Cemetery.