Amos Elon

Background

Amos Elon was born in Vienna. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933. 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.

Education

He studied law and history in Israel and England.

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.

Amos retired from Haaretz in 2001. Amos 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.

Foreign 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".

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

Works

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• book

  • The Israelis: Founders and Sons 1983
  • Flight into Egypt 1980
  • Jerusalem: Battlegrounds of Memory 1995
  • Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time 1996

Membership

• Member of Editorial board "Ha'aretz"

  1962

Personality

Quotes from others about the person

• In 2005, his daughter Danae produced a biographical film about him, entitled Another Road Home.

Connections

Married Beth Brod. They had one daughter - Danae Audrey.