Rabbi Israel ben Joseph Alnaqua (Hebrew: ישראל בן יוסף אלנאקוה) (also, "Al-Nakawa", "Al-Nakava", "Ankava", "Ankoa", "Alnucawi", etc., Hebrew: "נקוה", "אלנאקוה", "אנקווה", "אנקאווא") (died 1391) was an ethical writer and martyr who lived in Toledo, Spain.
He is the author of an ethical work in twenty chapters, entitled Menorat ha-Maor (Hebrew: מנורת המאור, lit.
The introduction to each chapter is headed by a poem, giving the acrostic of his name, Israel.
An abridgment of it was published at Kraków, 1593, under the title Menorat Zahav Kullah (Candelabra Wholly of Gold).
It is divided into five sections, which contain observations This is supplemented by a treatise, שפת אליהו רבה, consisting of Talmudic and midrashic sayings and maxims, which has been published in German (Hebrew characters) in Wagenseil's Belehrung der Jüd.-Deutschen Red-und Schreibart, Königsberg, 1699.