Shmuel Flatto-Sharon, a former businessman who fled to Israel and joined the Knesset to escape a French jail sentence, died early Friday morning. He was 88.
Flatto-Sharon had been hospitalized near Tel Aviv since September with an infection, according to Hebrew-language media reports.
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Born in Poland in 1930, Flatto-Sharon escaped the Holocaust and eventually became a successful industrialist. In 1975, he moved to Israel, apparently to escape French authorities who suspected him of embezzling tens of millions of dollars.
In 1977, with France attempting to have him extradited to serve a jail sentence, Flatto-Sharon started a one-man political party and managed…
