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Charlie-Shalom Biton (April 11, 1947 – 24 February 2024) was an Israeli social activist and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Hadash and the Black Panthers between 1977 and 1992.
Charlie Biton was born in Casablanca in French Morocco, one of six children. His family immigrated to Israel in 1949 when he was two years old. He grew up in the Musrara neighbourhood of Jerusalem and attended an ORT vocational school. In early 1971 he was one of the founders of the Israeli Black Panthers movement, along with Sa’adia Marciano, Reuven Abergel and Eli Avichzer. He was arrested after the organisation protested outside Jerusalem’s City Hall in March that year. In 1974 he was sentenced to seven months in prison for assaulting a police officer. He went into hiding to avoid his sentence, and was later pardoned after lobbying from Ratz MK Shulamit Aloni and the Sephardi Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
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