A Jewish lawyer and mother of five is the newly elected speaker of France's National Assembly and the first woman to ever hold that position.
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Yael Braun-Privet, 51, whose grandparents fled Eastern Europe in the 1930s to escape the Nazis, is now the fourth-highest-ranking official in France after the president, prime minister and senate speaker.
Braun-Privet joined President Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble coalition in 2016 and has been a member of the National Assembly's France-Israel Friendship Group since 2017, The Times of Israel reported.
She formerly served as the president of the National Assembly law commission.
JNS.org contributed to this report.
