Ruth Elkrief (born 1 December 1960 in

Meknes Meknes (, ) is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco, located in northern central Morocco and the sixth largest city by population in the kingdom. Founded in the 11th century by the Almoravid dynasty, Almoravids as a military settlement, Mekne ...

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

) is a French-Moroccan

television journalist Broadcast journalism is the field of news and journals which are broadcast by electronic methods instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters. It works on radio (via air, cable, and Internet), television (via air, cable, ...

. She worked for the 24-hour news channel

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from 2005 to 2021.

Early life

Ruth Elkrief was born in Meknes, Morocco. Her great-uncle,

Shalom Messas Shalom Messas () was a Moroccan rabbi and scholar who served as Chief Rabbi of Morocco, and later as Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. Biography Messas was born in Meknes, Morocco in 1909. He was the son of Rabbi Maimoun Messas and his wife, Rachel. ...

, was a rabbi. She emigrated to France with her family as a teenager. Elkrief graduated from

Sciences Po Sciences Po () or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (), is a public research university located in Paris, France, that holds the status of ''grande école'' and the legal status of . The university's unde ...

and later earned a postgraduate degree in journalism from the

Centre de Formation des Journalistes The ''Centre de formation des journalistes'' (in English: ''Institute for the Training of Journalists'') or CFJ Graduate School of Journalism is a private non-profit ''Grande École'' and the Paris-Panthéon-Assas University graduate school of ...

Career

Elkrief was a correspondent for

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in Washington, D.C. in 1990. A year later, in 1991, she was appointed head of its political programmes. She joined

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in 1994 and

in 2005. In January 2021, she announced that she was leaving the channel. On 31March 2021, Fabien Namias, vice-managing director of the

group's all-news channel, announced that Ruth Elkrief would be joining LCI. Elkrief became a Knight of the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ...

in 2008.

Personal life

Elkrief is married to Claude Czechowski. They have two daughters.

References

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