| Galila Ron-Feder Amit | |
| Birth Date: | October 12, 1949 |
| Birth Place: | Haifa, Israel |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Notableworks: | Jingi series |
Galila Ron-Feder Amit (Hebrew: גלילה רון־פדר-עמית, born 1949) is an Israeli children books author.[1] She has written 400 books, as well as television and film scripts.[2] She also published a children`s nature magazine, and served as editor of a science magazine for young readers.
Galila Ron was born in Haifa, 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.
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 (Hebrew: ג'ינג'י) series and Tuli Ta'alooli (Hebrew: טולי תעלולי).[3] In 1972, she began publishing a children`s nature magazine. She was also the editor of a science magazine for young readers.
A film based on her experiences as a foster mother, To Myself, won First Prize at the Frankfurt Children's Film Festival. In 2008, she received the World Zionist Organization Award for Lifetime Achievement and Social Involvement.[4] In 2018, Ron-Feder was a recipient of the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works.