Phat’hi’s Treasure

Author, editor, and columnist Emuna Elon was born in Jerusalem and now lives in the religious settlement of Beit-El. Her books for children and adults have been translated extensively. In the early 1990s she began writing for the Israeli press and in 1996 was an adviser on women’s issues to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Her novel, If You Awaken Love, was published in 2007 by The Toby Press.

Michael Netzer is a comic book artist, best known for his work for DC Comics and Marvel Comics in the 1970s. Born Michael Nasser in Detroit, Michigan, to a Druze father and a mother who was part Druze and part Lebanese Jewish, he lived for part of his childhood in Lebanon. In 1983, he moved to Israel, converted to Judaism and changed his last name to Netzer. In 1987, he co-produced Israel’s first superhero comic book, Uri On, and designed its menorah logo. A resident of a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, he became a public presence in the Israeli media for advocating comic books as a tool for achieving a peaceful solution to the Arab-Israel conflict. Netzer has continued to create and work on comic books in both Israel and United States and to advocate for comics as an important cultural and social resource, and for defending the intellectual property rights of comic book artists, though not without controversy.