Avraham Biton

Avraham Biton (Hebrew: אברהם ביטון, born 21 February 1923, died 18 February 2005) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment and Labor Party between 1965 and 1969.

Biography

Born in Mandatory Palestine in 1923, Biton joined the Haganah at the age of 16, and later commanded a platoon in the Hish. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he commanded a company in the Givati Brigade, and was later demobilised from the IDF as a major.

In 1947 he had begun working at the Palestine Electricity Corporation (which was to become the Israel Electric Corporation) and later became chairman of its national secretariat. In 1965 he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list, but lost his seat in the 1969 elections. He died in 2005 at the age of 81.

External links

• Avraham Biton on the Knesset website