Born in North Africa, his family fled Algeria as refugees in 1948, and made Aliyah to Israel. At the age of 10, he lost his vision and his left hand to a stray hand grenade that he foundation The following year he went to school at Jerusalem"s Institute for the Blind.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts in social work from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an Master of Arts in psychology at Bar-Ilan University.
Following his studies, Biton worked as a social worker in Ashkelon for seven years and as a psychologist in an outlying town. He worked as a journalist and published a weekly column in the Israeli mainstream daily Maariv.
His first book, Mincha Marokait (Moroccan Gift), published in 1976, established him as the founding father of Mizrahi poetry in Israel.
2015) Biton was awarded the Israel Prize for Literature, the first Mizrahi Jew to receive lieutenant The prize committee described his poems as being "the epitome of courageous dealings, sensitive and deep with a wide range of personal and collective experiences centered around the pain of migration, planting roots in the country, and the reestablishment of the Mizrahi identity as an integral part of the overall Israeli portrait.” (2014) Bialik Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2014) Yehuda Amichai Prize (1988) Prime Minister"s Prize (1982) Miriam Talpir Prize.
