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Marie van der Zyl

Marie van der Zyl is the President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Marie has spearheaded successful campaigns for the proscription of Hamas and Hezbollah and to amend Covid legislation that could have resulted in forced cremation of Covid victims. In her professional life she is a solicitor and a partner at INCE GD.

Rachel Vogler

Rachel is the Right to Food campaign consultant for René Cassin. For the last 18 months she has been building René Cassin's participation in the national Right to Food campaign, focused also on building Jewish alliances for a strong Jewish response to food poverty.

Yitchak von Schweitzer

Yitzchak was born in 1926 in Austria. He served in the German army on the Russian Front in 1944-45 and was a British prisoner of war between 1945-48. He was then in the Royal Engineers in the bomb disposal service in London. In 1949 he went to London University and following postgraduate studies held a range of executive jobs in England, Europe and South Africa. He converted to orthodox Judaism in South Africa.