Early Life
Born in Gabès, Tunisia on 4 August 1958 to a family that traced its roots to the Sephardic Beit Shalom dynasty, Shalom's family made aliyah to the city of Beersheba, in Israel's Negev in 1959. On 3 November 1964, while Shalom was six years old, his father, Shimon Shalom, a bank manager and a member of the Beitar movement, was killed during the course of a bungled bank robbery. He was 7 years old at the time. The murder was notoriously known as the first committed in a bank robbery in the history of the young state of Israel. At the age of 18, he was inducted into the Israel Defense Forces and achieved the rank of Sergeant.
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