Galila Ron-Feder Amit

Galila Ron-Feder Amit (; born 1949) is an Israeli children books author. She has written 400 books, as well as television and film scripts. She also published a children`s nature magazine, and served as editor of a science magazine for young readers.

Biography

Galila Ron was born in Haifa in 1949. She studied at the Hebrew Reali School and earned a degree in Bible and Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After her marriage to Avi Feder ended in divorce, she married Meshulam Amit. She has three children of her own from her first marriage, and ten foster children, taken in from broken homes.

Literary career

Ron-Feder published her first book in 1971. She is the author of many books for children that have become Hebrew classics, among them the Gingi series and Tuli Ta'alooli . In 1972, she began publishing a children's nature magazine. She was also the editor of a science magazine for young readers.

Awards and honors A film based on her experiences as a foster mother, To Myself, won First Prize at the children's film festival in Frankfurt.

In 2008 Ron-Feder was honored as one of the torchbearers in the national Israeli Independence Day ceremony. That year she also received the World Zionist Organization Award for Lifetime Achievement and Social Involvement.

In 2025, President Isaac Herzog's office named her among the nine recipients of the Presidential Medal of Honour.

Further awards are listed on her page on the website (here).

Published works The Time Tunnel - a children's adventure series about two Jerusalem children who travel back in time to historical events related to the establishment of the State of Israel and the history of the Jewish people (86 volumes). International Mission - a children's adventure series about Israeli children who travel to different countries and participate in various missions. Ṭaʻut, 1978 To myself, 1987 Yesh ishah aḥeret, 1994 Ziyafnu kol kakh, 1995 Meshuḥreret la-ʻuf, 1997 Caro Me Stesso, 1999 Retsaḥ be-tsameret ha-mishṭarah, 1999 Ima shel tarmilaʼi : sipur ahavah opṭimi, 2002 Le journal de Fanny, 2011 Omrim ahavah yesh : sipuro shel Ḥayim Naḥman Byaliḳ, 2012