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EXCLUSIVE: Remove body of undercover missionary from Jewish cemetery, say rabbinical chiefs

Amanda Elk was a Christian evangelist who posed as a Jew with her husband in order to convert members of the Orthodox community

June 2, 2021 09:09
The Elk family in Jerusalem
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The body of an undercover Christian missionary who posed as an Orthodox Jew must be exhumed from a Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem, two of Israel’s leading rabbinical authorities have decreed.

Amanda Elk, who went by the surname Elkohen, was a Christian evangelist who posed as a Jew with her husband, Michael Elk, in Jerusalem, in order to convert unsuspecting members of the Orthodox community. 

She died in February of colon cancer at the age of 42 and was buried in a multi-level grave in Har HaMenuchot cemetery, the largest in Jerusalem, above a Jewish woman.