# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-elon
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:13:37.278Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-elon"
name: "Benjamin Elon"
slug: "benjamin-elon"
description: "Rabbi Binyamin \"Benny\" Elon 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, 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."
tagline: "Israeli rabbi and politician (1954-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benjamin_Elon_(00330644).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1954-11-10"
deathDate: "2017-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.23
  momentum:             1.657458563535912
  historical:           9.430348
  currentAttention:     9.208103130755065
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Benny Elon"
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    title: "بينيامين الون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binjamin_Elon"
    title: "Binjamin Elon"
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    title: "Benjamin Elon"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binyamin_Elon"
    title: "Binyamin Elon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Elon"
    title: "Benjamin Elon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binyamin_Elon"
    title: "Binyamin Elon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "בנימין אלון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binyamin_Elon"
    title: "Binyamin Elon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binjamin_Elon"
    title: "Binjamin Elon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Элон, Биньямин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump