Menachem Elon, German-Israeli academic and jurist (born 1923)

Menachem Elon

Israeli High Court judge

Menachem Elon was an Israeli jurist and Professor of Law specializing in traditional Jewish Law, an Orthodox rabbi, and a prolific author on traditional Jewish law (Halakha). He was the head of the Jewish Law Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He lost the 1983…