"He was a panther in a world of hypocrites," says Prof. Yuval Albashan of the Ono Academic Kirya.
"The most important struggle of the Mizrahim in the seventies was the Black Panther struggle," says Sharit Golan, who is running for mayor of Haifa. The veteran journalist, winner of the Israel Prize for Communication, Yaakov Achimair, remembers Charlie Beaton well, although he admits that he never had a close acquaintance with him.