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Jean-Pierre Elkabbach

Jean-Pierre Elkabbach

Acting
29 Sept 1937
03 Oct 2023
Oran, French Algeria

Biography

Elkabbach was born to an Algerian Jewish family in Oran in 1937, then the prefecture of the département d'Oran in French Algeria. He began his journalistic career in 1960 as a radio correspondent in Algiers, but having taken part in the strikes of May 1968 he was sidelined and sent to Toulouse. Elkabbach would later spend time in Bonn, Germany before venturing into television news in 1970. From 1993 to 1996 he served as president of France 2 and France 3, from 1999-2009 he was president of the t...

Also Known As

Haïm Jean-Pierre El Kabbach

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