David Hazony

David Yair Hazony (born 1969) is an American-born Israeli writer,[1] translator, and editor. He was the founding editor of The Tower Magazine from 2013 to 2017,[2] and from 2017-2020 served as executive director of the Israel Innovation Fund.

Career

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.

Hazony has written for the New Republic,[3] CNN.com,[4] The Forward,[5] Commentary,[6] Moment,[7] The Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Chronicle, the New York Sun, Jewish Ideas Daily,[8] and has appeared on CNN,[9] MSNBC,[10] and Fox News.[11]

He was a fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, founded by his older brother Yoram Hazony,[12] until 2007. In 2004–2007, he served as editor in chief of Azure, its quarterly.[13]

Notable publications

Books:

  • 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:

References
  1. Cramer, Philissa (April 29, 2020). "Reacting to packed Orthodox funeral, New York City mayor warns 'the Jewish community' and faces swift backlash". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  2. "Magazine". TheTower.org. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  3. "Virtually Normal", The New Republic, June 11, 2008]
  4. "My Take: Are the Ten Commandments still relevant?". CNN.com. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  5. "David Hazony". Forward.com. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  6. David Hazony's posts on Contentions, the weblog of Commentary Magazine.
  7. ""Welcome to Fire-Extinguisher Judaism," Moment, May/June 2010". MomentMag.com. Archived from the original on May 15, 2010. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  8. "Jewish Ideas Daily » Authors » David Hazony". JewishIdeasDaily. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  9. "Was Netanyahu's speech a success? - CNN Video". CNN.com. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  10. "Looking at the politics behind Netanyahu's speech". MSNBC.com. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  11. "Setback in Mid-East Peace Talks". Fox News. May 3, 2011. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  12. "The Rise and Fall of The Israel Project". Jewish Currents. February 18, 2020. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  13. "Azure - Ideas for the Jewish Nation". www.Azure.org.il. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
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