French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday reversed a government decision to exclude eight Israeli firms from the Milipol defense exhibition in Paris. This followed intervention by French-Jewish lawmaker Meyer Habib, who explained to JNS how the issue was resolved.

A lawyer for one of the eight firms contacted Habib on Tuesday after his client had received an email from organizers disinviting the client from Milipol a day before the show opened on Wednesday, he told JNS. The defense ministry had forced the show’s organizers to block the participation of the eight firms.

Habib texted Macron and waited for 2.5 hours, he related. “He didn’t reply, so I went public and posted a screenshot of my text to him,” said Habib, a former leader of French Jewry and a personal friend of Israeli Prime

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