Zion Assidon was born in 1948 to a Moroccan Berber Jewish family in Safi.

During the Years of Lead, Assidon was involved in the fight for the establishment of democracy in his country, which led to his arrest in 1972.

He spent 12 years in prison along with fellow opposition leaders and political dissidents.

[5] In 2011, he protested against Hindi Zahra with the Casablanca group of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) because the singer had decided to hold a concert in Tel Aviv.

In April 2012, he protested the visit of Israeli tennis player Shahar Pe'er, declaring: "We should not receive artists or athletes from this country as if nothing had happened.