Yair Nehorai () is an Israeli lawyer and author, best known for his novel Taliban Son (Hebrew: וַתְּהִי-לִי אִמִּי קִבְרִי; the Hebrew title is taken from Jeremiah 20:17)Schweimer, Yotam "Driving out the darkness of 'The Taliban Mother'" Ynet 25 January 2012. Retrieved on 7 July 2013. and for representing a series of high-profile cases involving the most extreme religious groups in Israel.Yair Ettinger and Oz Rosenberg "The Messiah of Mea She'arim" Haaretz 26 October 2011. Retrieved on 7 July 2013.
His novel Taliban Son (released by Steimatzky in 2011),Juliane von Mittelstaedt "The growing influence of the ultra-orthodox in Israel" Der Spiegel 13 January 2012. Retrieved on 7 July 2013. is loosely based on the famous “Taliban Mother” case, in which Nehorai represented both the son and the husband of the female leader of a Jewish extremist group, charged with child abuse.
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