Pepe Alalu

Alalu served as a combat soldier in the Israeli Artillery Corps, an Israel Defense Forces's corps responsible for operating medium and long-range artillery. He remained there until age 48.^{[citation needed]}

Pepe began his career as an activist and chairman of the Jewish student cell in Lima, Peru, and was also active in local left-wing political parties. He holds the opinion that Jerusalem is one of the central issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and argues that a just solution would involve dividing the city: Jewish-majority neighborhoods in western Jerusalem would remain under Israeli sovereignty, while Palestinian-majority neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem would become part of Al-Quds, the future capital of Palestine.^[2][3]

He joined Israel politics in the early 1970s as a member of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) secretariat. After studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Alalu joined a "New Left" movement and took part in the Black Panthers, an Israeli protest movement established by second-generation Jewish immigrants from North Africa and the Arab world. Alalu was arrested in a Black Panthers demonstration and was charged with unlawful assembly and rioting in a public space. His trial lasted for about a year and at the end he had to pay a fine, which was paid collectively by the Black Panthers movement.^{[citation needed]}

He continued his political career in the parties Red Broom, Moked, Left Camp of Israel, Ratz and Meretz, all of which are Israeli left-wing parties. In the 80s. Alalu participated in the Peace Now movement and in the Histadrut, Israel's national trade union center. he left politics in 2015.^[4]

Alalu participated in the Israeli hostage deal protests in 2025.^[5]