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Emuna Elon (Hebrew: אמונה אלון) (born 1955) is an Israeli author, journalist, and women's rights activist.
Biography
Emuna Elon was born in 1955 in Jerusalem, the daughter of rabbi and professor Pinchas Hacohen Peli and his wife Pnina. She was raised in Jerusalem and New York, lived for many years in Beit El, and currently lives in Jerusalem. She was married to the late Rabbi Binyamin Elon, a former Knesset member, and is the mother of six children. The name Emuna means faith.
From 1991 to 2005, she wrote a column in Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's largest newspaper, where she advocated the separation of Judaism and politics. She has written four novels (one translated into English as "If You Awaken Love", a finalist for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award), and 17 children's books and works of non-fiction.
Selected books
- If You Awaken Love, London/New Milford, AmazonCrossing, 2007
- Beyond My Sight, Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, 2012
- 'Only When I Close My Eyes', Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, 2015
- 'House on Many Waters', Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, 2016