Shmuel "Samy" Flatto-Sharon (Hebrew: שמואל פלאטו-שרון, 18 January 1930 – 7 December 2018) was a controversial French-Israeli businessman, radio talk-show host and politician.

He came to own a transport service for hauling merchandise with dozens of trucks, industrial plants, a chain of restaurants and cafes, and hotels.

[2] By the late 1960s, he owned dozens of companies throughout Europe, the United States, and South America, and did business in oil, logging, and precious metals in Africa.

He entered into a partnership with Israeli businessman Avraham Pilz, with whom he established the Dizengoff Center, Israel's first shopping mall.

Despite barely speaking Hebrew, in 1977 he formed a one-man party, also named Flatto-Sharon, to run in the Knesset elections that year, hoping to obtain parliamentary immunity to avoid extradition to France.

[5] It has been suggested that the surprising level of support that the party won was a response to France's refusal to extradite Abu Daoud, who was wanted in Israel for the Munich massacre.

[4] Once ensconced in the Knesset, he joined Menachem Begin's coalition, with one of his first acts being to vote in favour of a law that prohibited the extradition of Israeli citizens.

[2] In 1998, he was arrested on suspicion of involvement in an arson at the Tel Aviv Cultural Center in 1996 together with four co-conspirators in order to file insurance claims on pieces of art stored there.