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Emuna Elon

אמונה אלון

Emuna Elon was born in Jerusalem to a family of rabbis and scholars, and was raised in Jerusalem and New York. She teaches Judaism, Hassidism and Hebrew literature, and has served as advisor to the Prime Minister on the status of Israeli women. She also wrote a weekly political column in the mass circulation daily, Yedioth Ahronoth, and later in Israel Hayom. Elon has published essays, short stories, popular children’s books and a number of bestselling novels. Her novel If You Awaken Love was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award (2007). Elon received the Book Publishers Association’s Gold Book Prize (2010) for her novel Inscribe My Name, the Aminach Prize for Beyond My Sight (2014) and the Prime Minister’s Prize (2015).

The exclusive option for TV/film adaptation based on Elon’s novel House on Endless Water was purchased in April 2019.

Photo by: Dan Porges

The Books

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  • House on Endless Waters

    [Bayit Al Mayim Rabim]
    Fiction
    Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan 2016

  • Only When I Close My Eyes: Thoughts about God

    [Rak Be-Einayim Atzumot]
    Children Picture book
    Zmora-Bitan 2015

  • The State of Kindergarten Children

    [Ha-Medina Shel Yaldei Ha-Gan]
    Children Picture book
    Korʹim 2012

  • Beyond My Sight

    [Be-Mufla Mi-Meni]
    Fiction
    Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan 2012

  • Inscribe My Name

    [Ve-Tichtevu: Ahuvatenu]
    Fiction Novel
    Yedioth Ahronoth 2010

  • If You Awaken Love [Heaven Rejoices]

    [Simcha Gdola Ba-Shamayim]
    Fiction Novel
    Keter 2004

  • Holiday Stories

    [Sipurim Le-Yamim Tovim]
    Children Picture book
    Korʹim 2003

  • Leftsock

    Children
    Dor 2001

  • Hanochʹs Candies

    [Ha-Sukaryot Shel Hanoch]
    Children Picture book
    Dor 1998

  • Who Drinks Last?

    [Mi Shoteh Acharon?]
    Children Picture book
    Dor 1998

  • Ayelet is Looking for a Mitzvah

    [Ayelet Mechpeset Mitzva]
    Children Picture book
    Olam Hasefer Hatorani 1995

  • Even When I Hide

    [Afilu Kshe-Ani Mitchabeh]
    Children Picture book
    Sifrey Hamerkaz 1995

  • A Little Girl who Can Read

    [Yalda She-Yodaʹat Likro]
    Children Picture book
    Sifrey Hamerkaz 1995

  • In Honor of Shabbat

    [Sefer Li-Chvod Shabbat]
    Children Picture book
    Sifriat Bet El 1990

  • Michalʹs Kippah

    [Ha-Kippah Shel Michal]
    Children Picture book
    Sifriat Bet El 1988

  • On Saturday Afternoon

    [Be-Shabbat Achar Ha-Tzoʹorayim]
    Children Picture book
    Sifriat Bet El 1988

  • Fathiʹs Treasure

    [Ha-Otzar Shel Fathi]
    Children Youth
    Sifriat Bet El 1988

  • Passover Coming Soon

    [Od Meʹat Pessach]
    Children Picture book
    Sifriat Bet El 1987

  • How to Ask for Forgiveness?

    [Eich Mevakshim Slicha?]
    Children Picture book
    Sifriat Bet El 1987

  • When I Ask God

    [Kshe-Ani Mevakesh Me-Elohim]
    Children Picture book
    Zmora-Bitan 1985