a form of civil union, during which he mentioned some "homophobic" arguments according to several observers ("You just have to sterilize them!"). However, later on in 2003 he was in favour of a law introducing harsher punishments for abuses against homosexuals. Lellouche is also a strong opponent of the solidarity tax on wealth (ISF) first voted under François Mitterrand. In 2015, Lellouche opposed a parliamentary decision to create a $60-million fund to compensate Holocaust victims deported by French state rail firm SNCF to Nazi concentration camps in a move also intended to protect the company from future U.S. litigation. In response to the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks, Lellouche publicly opposed a bill proposed by Prime Minister Manuel Valls to let France's intelligence services deploy fly-on-the-wall spying devices more easily against suspected terrorists. Israel In 2003, in the newspaper Liberation, he declared there was "a new anti-Semitism, linked to the crisis in the Middle East and which appeared about twenty years ago. In 2014, he voted against the resolution on the Palestinian State but protested "against the unbearable and unacceptable interference of the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the vote of the French Parliament". In 2015, he discovers having been monitored by the NSA. In 2017, he reaffirms his position on “the necessary halt to the construction of new settlements”, but declares himself against a “strategy of one-upmanship against Israel”. Personal life Lellouche has been married twice, both marriages ending in divorce. His first wife was American; he has three children with his second, the artist , who is a daughter of , a businessman and former advisor to Georges Pompidou and Yasser Arafat. After living in a two-room apartment in the 9th arrondissement, around 2010, Lellouche bought the in Morannes, a 15th-century hunting lodge of King René of Anjou, where he became embroiled in disputes over its restoration. References 1951 births Living people Tunisian Jews Jewish French politicians People from Tunis Politicians from Paris Sciences Po alumni Harvard University alumni Politicians of the French Fifth Republic Rally for the Republic politicians Union for a Popular Movement politicians The Republicans (France) politicians Deputies of the 10th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 11th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 14th National