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Name
  
Amos Elon

Plays
  
Children
  
Danae Elon

Spouse
  
Beth Elon (m. 1961)

Role
  
Journalist


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Died
  
May 25, 2009, Tuscany, Italy

Books
  
The Pity of It All: A Portrait of, The Israelis, Founder: A Portrait of the First, Jerusalem: City of Mirrors, A Blood‑Dimmed Tide

Similar People
  
Danae Elon, Avishai Margalit, Dore Schary

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Amos Elon (Hebrew: עמוס אילון‎‎, July 4, 1926 – May 25, 2009) was an Israeli journalist and author. Elon was married to Beth Elon and father of filmmaker Danae Elon.

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Biography

Amos Elon was born in Vienna. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933. He studied law and history in Israel and England. He was married to Beth Elon, a New York-born literary agent, with whom he had one daughter, Danae. In the 1990s, Elon began to spend much of his time in Italy. In 2004 he moved there permanently, citing disillusionment with developments in Israel since 1967. Elon died on May 25, 2009 in Borgo Buggiano in Tuscany, Italy, aged 82. In 2005, his daughter Danae produced a biographical film about him, entitled Another Road Home.

Journalistic career

Beginning in the 1950s, Elon served as a correspondent on European and American affairs for the newspaper Haaretz. He took a leave of absence from Haaretz in 1971 and resumed in 1978. Elon retired from Haaretz in 2001. Elon was an early advocate for the creation of a Palestinian state and withdrawal from the territories occupied by Israel in 1967. He was a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and The New York Times Magazine. For many years, he was widely regarded as one of Israel's leading journalists.

Elon was the author of nine books. He rose to international fame in the early 1970s after publishing The Israelis: Founders and Builders, described as "an affectionate but unsparing portrait of the early Zionists". Plunkett Lake Press has recently reissued several of Elon's books in eBook form.

Academic career

In 2007–2008, Elon was a fellow at the Center for Law and Security at New York University School of Law.

Published works

  • Journey Through a Haunted Land—the new Germany
  • The Israelis, Founders and Sons
  • eBook version reissued by Plunkett Lake Press
  • Herzl, a Biography
  • eBook version reissued by Plunkett Lake Press
  • Flight into Egypt
  • Jerusalem: City of Mirrors (Little, Brown, 1990)
  • Timetable, a novel
  • Jerusalem, Battleground of Memory
  • eBook version reissued by Plunkett Lake Press
  • A Blood-dimmed Tide—Dispatches from the Middle East
  • Founder, the first Rothschild
  • eBook version reissued by Plunkett Lake Press
  • The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews In Germany 1743–1933
  • References

    Amos Elon Wikipedia