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Abraham Serfaty was born on 16 January, 1926 in Morocco, is a Moroccan activist (1926–2010). Discover Abraham Serfaty's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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Born 16 January, 1926
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Date of death 18 November, 2010
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1926

Abraham Serfaty (أبراهام سرفاتي‎; 16 January 1926 – 18 November 2010) was an internationally prominent Moroccan Marxist-Leninist dissident, militant, and political activist, who was imprisoned for years by King Hassan II of Morocco, for his political actions in favor of democracy, during the Years of Lead.

He paid a high price for such actions: fifteen months living underground, seventeen years of imprisonment and eight years of exile.

Abraham Serfaty was born in Casablanca, on 16 January 1926, to a middle-class Moroccan Jewish family originally from Tangier.

1944

In February 1944, he joined the Moroccan Youth Communists, and, upon his arrival in France in 1945, the French Communist Party.

1949

He graduated in 1949 from École des Mines de Paris, one of the most prominent French engineering schools.

His political activities started very early.

When he returned to Morocco in 1949, he joined the Moroccan Communist Party.

1950

His anti-colonialist activities had him arrested and jailed by the French authorities, and in 1950 he was assigned a forced residence in France for six years.

1956

Shortly after Morocco's independence in 1956, he encumbered several, more technical than political, posts and was part of the Ministry of Economy from 1957 to 1960.

During that time, he has been one of the many promoters of the new mining policy of the newly independent Morocco.

1960

From 1960 to 1968, he was the director of the Research-Development of the Cherifian Office of Phosphates, but was revoked of his duties because of his solidarity with miners during a strike.

1968

From 1968 to 1972, he taught at the Engineers School of Mohammedia, and at the same time, collaborated at the "Souffles/Anfas" artistic journal, headed by Abdellatif Laabi.

Abraham Serfaty was a Moroccan Jew, and an anti-Zionist Jew who did not recognize the State of Israel and was outraged by what he saw as the mistreatment of the Palestinians.

1970

In 1970, Serfaty left the Communist Party, which he considered to be too doctrinarian and became deeply involved in the establishment of a Marxist-Leninist left-wing organization called "Ila al-Amam" (En Avant in French, Forward in English).

1972

In January 1972, he was arrested for the first time and savagely tortured, but released after heavy popular pressure.

As he was again targeted for his continuing fight, Serfaty went underground in March 1972, with one of his friends Abdellatif Zeroual, who was also wanted by the authorities.

It was then that he met for the first time Christine Daure, a French teacher who then helped both men to hide.

1974

After several months of hiding, Abraham Serfaty and Abdellatif Zeroual were arrested again in 1974.

After their arrest, Abdellatif Zeroual died, a victim of torture.

In October 1974, at the "Derb Moulay Chérif", center of interrogation in Casablanca, Abraham Serfaty was one of five prisoners sentenced to life in prison.

He was officially charged with "plotting against the State's security", but the heavy sentence seemed to have been more a result for his attitude against the annexing of the Western Sahara, even if this motif did not appear in the official indictment, than his political activism.

He then served seventeen years at the Kenitra prison, where, thanks to Danielle Mitterrand's help, he was able to marry his biggest supporter, Christine Daure.

1991

International pressure was enough in Serfaty's favor that he was finally released from prison in September 1991, but immediately exiled from Morocco and deprived of his Moroccan nationality on grounds that his father was Brazilian.

He found a haven in France, with his wife, Christine Daure-Serfaty.

1992

From 1992 to 1995, Serfaty taught at the University of Paris-VIII, in the department of political sciences, on the theme of "identities and democracy in the Arab world".

1993

Abraham Serfaty was the co-author, with his wife Christine, of the book The Other's Memory (La Mémoire de l'Autre), published in 1993.

Abraham Serfaty was a fervent anti-Zionist, to the extent that he declared that Zionism had nothing to do with Judaism.

He moreover stated that the Jews had no right to Palestine, especially Jerusalem and the Western Wall.

He led several demonstrations supporting the Palestinian people, especially during Israeli air raids on Gaza, stating that Jerusalem was the capital of Palestine and that Israelis had no right to it.

In "Prison Writings on Palestine", he writes:"'Zionism is above all a racist ideology. She is the Jewish reverse of Hitlerism [...]It proclaims the State of Israel 'a Jewish state above all,' just as Hitler proclaimed an Aryan Germany.'"

1999

He returned to Morocco in September 1999.

Eight years after his exile and two months after the death of King Hassan II, he was finally allowed by King Mohammed VI to return to Morocco in September 1999, and had his Moroccan citizenship restored.

He then settled at Mohammedia with his wife Christine in a house made available to them, even receiving a monthly stipend.

In the same year, he was appointed Advisor to the National Moroccan Office of Research and Oil Exploitation (Onarep).

This nomination did not stop him for asking then Moroccan Prime Minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi to resign after attacks on the independent newspapers and magazines and restrictions of their rights and freedom of speech.

2010

Serfaty died in Marrakech, Morocco in November 2010.

Abraham Serfaty died on 18 November 2010, at the age of 84 in a clinic in Marrakech.

Only two official representatives of the Moroccan Jewish community were present at his burial.

His funeral at the Jewish cemetery in Rabat was solely attended by Moroccan Muslims, on account of his political stance regarding the Palestinian issue.