Today’s Jewish birthday: Amos Elon

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Amos Elon, 1949 (Photo: Wikipedia)

Amos Elon (July 4, 1926 – May 25, 2009) was an Israeli journalist and author. He was a writer for the newspaper Haaretz for most of his career and contributed essays to The New YorkerThe New York Times Magazine and The New York Review of Books. He also wrote books on Jewish history, the early Zionist movement and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Elon became known in Israel and abroad as an early and prominent critic of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

In his obituary, the Los Angeles Times called Elon “one of the most distinguished and provocative Israeli authors of his time”.

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