Binyamin Elon

Binyamin Elon
Elon in 2008
Ministerial roles
2001–2002	Minister of Tourism
2003–2004	Minister of Tourism
Faction represented in the Knesset
1996–1999	Moledet
1999–2009	National Union
Personal details
Born	(1954-11-10)10 November 1954 Jerusalem, Israel
Died	5 May 2017(2017-05-05) (aged 62) Jerusalem, Israel

Rabbi Binyamin "Benny" Elon (Hebrew: בנימין אלון, 10 November 1954 – 5 May 2017) was an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Moledet and the National Union between 1996 and 2009. A ninth-generation Jerusalemite,^{[citation needed]} Elon lived in Beit El, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, for over twenty years, and was married to author and journalist Emuna Elon. They had six children. His father, Menachem Elon, was the former Deputy Chief Justice of Israel. His brother, disgraced Rabbi Mordechai Elon, has been a prominent controversial figure in the Religious Zionist Movement.