A Jewish Bahraini will chair the elections monitoring committee of a human rights organization, the head of the NGO has said.
“We have formed our committee to monitor the legislative and municipal elections scheduled for this autumn,” Faisal Fuladh, the head of the Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society (BHRWS) has said. “It will be chaired by Menashe Cohen and will include Ghada Ihsan.”
Menashe, BHRWS deputy secretary general, is a member of the 47-strong Jewish community in Bahrain.
The former leader of BHRWS was Huda Nonoo who made history by becoming the Arab world’s first Jewish woman to head a human rights organization. She made history again by becoming the first, and so far the only, Arab Jewish ambassador to Washington, a post that she still holds. continue reading…
