https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Jewish-Institute-Research-Publication/dp/0706514157/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Menachem+Elon&qid=1612609447&s=books&sr=1-3
1995
https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Law-History-Sources-Principles/dp/0827603894/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Menachem+Elon&qid=1612609569&s=books&sr=1-1
2003
Elon Menachem was born on November 1, 1923 in Düsseldorf, Germany into a religious Jewish family from Hasidic backgrounds. Elon's family fled to the Netherlands a year before Nazism's ascent in Germany. In 1935, Elon's family immigrated to Palestine. In 1938, he studied Halakha (traditional Jewish law).
The Elon family, a member of the religious Zionist elite, is entrenched in the world of law, politics, Literature, and Halakha (Jewish religious law).
His Alma mater were Hebron Yeshiva and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Elon earned his diploma from the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics in 1948.
In the early 1950s, he worked as an attorney in private practice, while at the same time completing an MA in Talmud, Jewish history, and philosophy at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1962, he received his doctorate. In 1955, he began a parallel career as a lecturer in Hebrew law at Hebrew University, and was subsequently appointed teaching associate, senior lecturer, associate professor, and, in 1972, Professor of Jewish Law. He also served as a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Oxford University, University College of London, McGill University, and University of Pennsylvania, and as a visiting professor at Harvard University School of Law and at New York University School of Law.
In 1963, Elon was appointed head of the Institute for Research in Jewish Law at the Hebrew University, where he edited 10 volumes of The Annual of the Institute for Research in Jewish Law, as well as a digest of the response of the medieval authorities. From 1968 to 1971, he served as editor of the Division of Jewish Law of the Encyclopedia Judaica, and served as the editor of the Encyclopaedia Hebraica.
In 1955, he was appointed senior assistant to the Attorney General of Israel Haim Cohn, and from 1959 to 1966, Elon served as adviser on Jewish Law to the Israel Ministry of Justice, a job which included writing legal opinions based on Jewish law regarding every law proposed in Knesset. He was a member of numerous Israeli Public Inquiry committees, and he served on committees to prepare legal proposals in various fields of civil law.
In 1977, he was appointed to the Israeli Supreme Court.
In 1988, he was promoted to the position of deputy president of the Supreme Court, under Meir Shamgar. He served in this position until his retirement in 1993 after 16 years as a justice.
Married Ruth Buxbaum. Children: Arie, Josef, Benjamin, Avital, Mordechai.
