David Hazony

David Yair Hazony (born 1969) is an American-born Israeli writer, translator, and editor. He was the founding editor of The Tower Magazine from 2013 to 2017,[1] and from 2017–2020 served as executive director of the Israel Innovation Fund. He currently is an independent editor with Wicked Son Books.

Biography

Hazony studied at Columbia University, received a B.A. and M.A. from Yeshiva University, and completed his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Literary and publishing career

Hazony has written for the New Republic,[2] CNN.com,[3] The Forward,[4] Commentary,[5] Moment,[6] The Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Chronicle, the New York Sun, Jewish Ideas Daily,[7] and has appeared on CNN,[8] MSNBC,[9] and Fox News.[10]

He was a fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, founded by his older brother Yoram Hazony, until 2007. In 2004–2007, he served as editor in chief of Azure, its quarterly.[11]

From 2013 to 2017, he served as founding editor of The Tower Magazine, an online publication about Israel and the Middle East published by the Washington, D.C.-based Israel Project.

Published works

Books:

  • Editor of Jewish Priorities: Sixty-Five Proposals for the Future of Our People (Wicked Son, October 2023).
  • Author of The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life (Scribner, September 2010), a finalist for the 2010 National Jewish Book Award.
  • Edited Eliezer Berkovits, Essential Essays on Judaism (Shalem Press, 2002); Eliezer Berkovits, God, Man, and History (Shalem Press, 2004); and (together with Michael B. Oren and Yoram Hazony, eds.), New Essays on Zionism (Shalem Press, 2007).
  • Translated Emuna Elon's novel If You Awaken Love (Toby, 2007), a finalist for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award.
  • Translated Uri Bar-Joseph, "The Angel" (HarperCollins, 2016), winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award.

Essays:

  • "Israeli Identity and the Future of American Jewry" The Tower Magazine, June–July 2017.
  • "The Mind of the President," The Tower Magazine, June 2016.
  • "Zionism and the Changing Global Structure" (with Adam Scott Bellos), The Jerusalem Post, December 12, 2017.
  • "Aliyah of the Mind" (with Adam Scott Bellos), The Jerusalem Post, September 3, 2019.
  • "How Israel Is Solving the Global Water Crisis'" The Tower Magazine, October 2015.
  • The War Against the Jews "[1]'" SAPIR: A Journal of Jewish Conversations, October-November 2023.

References

  1. ^ "Magazine". TheTower.org. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  2. ^ "Virtually Normal", The New Republic, June 11, 2008]
  3. ^ "My Take: Are the Ten Commandments still relevant?". CNN.com. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  4. ^ "David Hazony". Forward.com. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  5. ^ David Hazony's posts on Contentions Archived July 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, the weblog of Commentary Magazine.
  6. ^ ""Welcome to Fire-Extinguisher Judaism," Moment, May/June 2010". MomentMag.com. Archived from the original on May 15, 2010. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  7. ^ "Jewish Ideas Daily » Authors » David Hazony". JewishIdeasDaily. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  8. ^ "Was Netanyahu's speech a success? - CNN Video". CNN.com. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  9. ^ "Looking at the politics behind Netanyahu's speech". MSNBC.com. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  10. ^ "Setback in Mid-East Peace Talks". Fox News. May 3, 2011. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  11. ^ "Azure - Ideas for the Jewish Nation". www.Azure.org.il. Retrieved November 25, 2017.

External links

  • Official website
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