Michael Applebaum, Montreal’s first Jewish mayor, was arrested at his home recently by Quebec’s anti-corruption unit.
Two other people were arrested: Jean Yves Bisson and the Jew Saulie Zajdel.
Zajdel was a Montreal city councillor for 23 years, from 1986 to 2009. He also served as a director for the Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation for more than four years.
Applebaum has strong ties to the Jewish community and has been openly supportive of Israel. He has told Canadian Jewish News that he was raised with values rooted in Judaism.
Applebaum, who is also mayor of the Côte des Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough, has spoken eloquently about the Jewish state at the annual downtown Yom Ha’atzmaut rallies and has regularly attended Canadian Jewish Public Affairs Committee events.
In 2006, Applebaum refused a request by the pro-Palestinian group Tadamon for a minute of silence at a borough council meeting for a Montreal family killed in Lebanon by Israeli shelling during the conflict with Hezbollah.
In 2011, Applebaum, along with fellow councillor and co-religionist Marvin Rotrand, spearheaded a petition to have a public place in Montreal named in memory of the Jewish writer Mordecai Richler.
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