Limor Son Har-Melech

Limor Son Har-Melech was born in 1979 in Jerusalem

Limor Son Har-Melech was born Limor Elmaleh in Jerusalem in 1979. Her father worked as a metalworker, and her family was not religious. She later studied at a religious school and at the Tzvia ulpana in Jerusalem.

She did national service as a Bnei Akiva youth counselor in Hashmonaim. She then studied at Midreshet Binat and took educational counseling studies at Orot Israel College. Her main professional field is emotional therapy and parent guidance.

In 2001 she married Shalom Har-Melech and moved with him to Homesh. In 2003 Palestinian gunmen attacked their car, killing her husband and severely wounding her, and her daughter was born in an emergency delivery. In 2005 Homesh was evacuated in the disengagement, and she later co-founded Homesh First, which seeks to rebuild it.

In 2006 she married Yehuda Son, and the family settled in Shavei Shomron. She has 10 children. In 2021 she published a book of poems about motherhood.

She was elected to the Knesset in 2022 on the Religious Zionist Party and Jewish Power list. She sponsored a law adding rape of men to the legal definition of rape, passed in April 2025, and a bill for the death penalty for terrorists. She became a deputy Knesset speaker in 2025 and chaired the Health Committee from December 2025 to February 2026.