Ouriel Ohayon Leaves TechCrunch France

Techcrunch France editor Ouriel Ohayon has announced that he is leaving the blog network effective today. You can read his post in French and in English. The French blog started three years ago, run by Ouriel who is located in Israel, will continue. Alain Eskenazi will continue writing for the blog.

Ouriel notes he will continue to send leads to Techcrunch and will continue to blog on his own blog. He will remain a shareholder in the blog network.

Here’s Ouriel’s overview, "Since May 06 i am now General Manager LightSpeed Gemini Internet Lab a joint venture between Gemini Israel funds and LightSpeed Venture dedicated to seed investments in internet Israeli start ups. I seat on the advisory of a few stealth mode startups and on the board of Wikio.com". We wish Ouriel luck and success in his future endeavors.

In other Techcrunch news, announced via a twitter message, bestselling book author and video blogger Sarah Lacy will be replacing editor Arrington this month during his rest time. For those of you wondering, Lacy has noted she will not be at SXSW next month.