David Max Benoliel

David Max Benoliel (February 5, 1934 – January 3, 2025) was a French-British lawyer and writer.

Biography Benoliel's was born in 1934 to a Gibraltese Jewish father and a Spanish Catholic mother. He was born as a British citizen under his father in Casablanca under the French protectorate in Morocco.

He graduated with a degree in law in 1956 in Casablance, and registered with the bar association in Marrakesh. He moved to the town of Agadir, where he survived the 1960 Agadir earthquake. He fled to France following the domestication of the Judicial system under Moroccan law. He did so in 1965, but was forbidden to access the French bar since was not a French national. He gained nationality in 1971 and was admitted to the bar in Aix-en-Provence in June 1973. He retained his British citizen, becoming a dual citizen. In 2012, he won the Royan Beach Novel Prize for his book, Le jeu des assassins.

His wife gave birth to a daughter, Marie, in 1991. She is an actress, comedian, and online personality known online as .