Amon was a fine linguist, versed in Arabic, Turkish, and Persian, and was a patron of Jewish learning.
He also built in that city, at his own cost, a school which was presided over by the learned Joseph Taitazak of Salonica.
Amon, who was everywhere highly respected on account of his firm character and philanthropy, was a fearless advocate of his coreligionists.
When about 1545 the Jews of Amasya were falsely accused of having murdered a Christian for ritual purposes, and the innocence of those that had been executed was established soon after by the reappearance of the missing man, Hamon induced the sultan to decree that thenceforward no accusation of the kind should be entertained by any judge of the country, but should be referred to the royal court (see Danon in El Progreso, i.
After an affray which arose in the Jewish community of Salonica, Hamon summoned the instigators to Constantinople and induced the sultan to send a judge to Salonica to investigate the affair and to punish the guilty ones (see Danon, l.c.