Emuna Elon
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Emuna Elon is an Israel
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i author and journalist. She is foremost known as a strong nationalist and for her marriage to Rabbi
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 Binyamin Elon
Binyamin Elon
Rabbi Binyamin "Benny" Elon is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Moledet and the National Union between 1996 and 2009. A ninth-generation Jerusalemite, Elon has lived in Beit El, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank for the last twenty years...

, a Knesset
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 member. Her name Emuna means faith.

She was raised in Jerusalem and New York
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, and now lives in Beit El
Beit El
Beit El is an Israeli settlement and a local council in the Benjamin region of the central West Bank, within the borders of the Matte Binyamin Regional Council. The religiously observant town is located in the hills north of Jerusalem east of the Palestinian city of al-Bireh. In 2009, it had a...

. Until 2005, she wrote a column in Yedioth Ahronoth
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, Israel's largest newspaper
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, where she advocated for the separation of literature and politics. She has written one novel titled "If You Awaken Love", published in 2007, and 14 children's books.

Elon is the mother of six children, and grandmother to eight.

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