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Mordechai (Moti) Elon ((ヘブライ語:מרדכי (מוטי) אֵלון); born 9 December 1959, Jerusalem, Israel) is a Zionist Israeli rabbi. He has headed several Jewish religious and social organizations and institutions including as Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat HaKotel in the Old City of Jerusalem from 2002 to 2006, and has hosted television and radio shows. In 2010 he was investigated for sexual misconduct, in response to revelations by Takana, a religious forum dealing with allegations of sexual harassment in the religious Zionist community. On 7 August 2013 the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court convicted him on two counts of forcible sexual assault against a male minor. Elon who is an outspoken opponent of homosexuality,〔 has denied the charges. ==Life and career== Elon was born in Jerusalem one of five children of former Israel Supreme Court Justice Menachem Elon and his wife Ruth née Buchsbaum. He received his high-school education at Yeshivat Yerushalayim Latzeirim. After graduating he went on to learn further religious studies at the Hesder Yeshiva Yeshivat Or Etzion and at the Hesder Yeshiva of Kiryat Shmona. In his twenties he began teaching religious studies at the Horev Yeshiva High-School in Jerusalem and became its Rosh Yeshiva in 1987. He left Horev Yeshiva High-School in 2002 to become the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat HaKotel in the Old City of Jerusalem, a post he left in 2006. Elon had a regular weekly lecture on the Torah portion at the Yeshurun synagogue in Jerusalem. Hundreds of people came to hear him and the lectures were aired on a public Israeli radio station. He also hosted a weekly television show on which he spoke about the week's Torah portion,〔(Israel Democracy Institute web site )〕 and headed a bible group held at the residence of the President of Israel.〔(Horev Yeshiva High-School website )〕 Elon established and headed a Jewish social and religious organization called "Mibereshit".〔(Mibereshit website )〕 The organization works with the Israeli education ministry and Israeli schools in order to bring Jewish children and teens to feel closer to their Jewish roots and to the land of Israel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mordechai Elon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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