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Sylvain Cypel
Sylvain Cypel is senior editor at the French newspaper "Le Monde".
Cypel is the holder of degrees in International Relations, Sociology and Contemporary History. Cypel, whose father, Jacques Cypel, editor-in-chief of "Unzer Wort" (Our Word), the world's last Yiddish-language daily newspaper until it was closed down in Paris in 1996, was a leader of the Zionist movement in France.
Cypel lived in Israel for 12 years. He studied at the Hebrew University
of current events. A selection of material from "Khamsin" was published under the title "Forbidden Agenda: Intolerance and Defiance in the Middle East" (Saqi Books, 2000).
Splits and debates.
In 1970 the organisation started going through a process of ideological and organisational fragmentation, with some members leaving to form new groups, such as Avangard with a Trotskyist orientation, led by Menahem Carmi and Sylvain Cypel, and Ma'avak (Revolutionary Communist Alliance), with a Maoist orientation, led by Ilan Albert and