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Behind the Aegis

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Tue Oct 29, 2019, 04:36 PM Oct 2019

(Jewish Group) Belgium's first female prime minister is Jewish

Sophie Wilmes is the first woman and the first Jewish person to become the prime minister of Belgium.

Wilmes, a mother of four from the Brussels region, replaced Charles Michel on Sunday in the top post. The centrist politician will head a caretaker government during negotiations on the formation of a coalition, which in Belgium has been known to take months.

Michel’s Cabinet collapsed last year, and Wilmes replaced him when he left for a European Union position. Both are members of the center-left MR party.

Wilmes’ mother is Ashkenazi Jewish and lost several relatives in the Holocaust, Philippe Markiewicz, the president of the Consistoire organization of Belgian Jewry, confirmed Monday to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

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Watch out world, the Jewish takeover is in effect! The only country with a Jewish leader...Israel. Now, Ukraine and Belgium. It has begun!

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