Career
Born in Rabat in Morocco, Levy made aliyah to Israel in 1957, and worked as an aeroplane technician. In 1982 he became Deputy Mayor of Lod, and the following year became mayor, serving until 1996. Maxim was first elected to the Knesset on the Likud-Tzomet-Gesher list in 1996.
During his first term, he chaired the Labour and Welfare Committee.
Foreign the 1999 elections, Gesher entered the One Israel alliance together with the Labor Party and Meimad. Levy was placed 18th on the alliance"s list, and retained his seat as One Israel claimed 26 mandates.
He was also appointed Deputy Speaker of the Knesset. On 7 March 2001, Levy, David Levy and Mordechai Mishani broke away from One Israel to re-establish Gesher as an independent faction.
Levy resigned his seat on 5 June 2002, and was replaced by Meimad"s Yehuda Gilad (as the One Israel list priority still applied to replacements).
He died four months later. Following his death, the resurrected Hapoel Lod football club was renamed "Hapoel Maxim Lod" in his honour.