David Yair Hazony (born 1969) is an American-born
Israeli
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writer, translator, and editor. He was the founding editor of ''
The Tower Magazine'' from 2013 to 2017,
and from 2017-2020 served as executive director of the Israel Innovation Fund. He currently is an independent editor with
Wicked Son Books.
Career
Hazony studied at
Columbia University
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, received a B.A. and M.A. from
Yeshiva University
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on the Yeshiva Universi ...
, and completed his Ph.D. at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
.
Hazony has written for ''
the New Republic
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'',
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''The New Republic'', June 11, 2008] CNN.com,
''
The Forward
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'',
''
Commentary'',
[David Hazony's posts on Contentions](_blank)
, the weblog of Commentary Magazine. ''
Moment
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Music
* The Moments, American R&B vocal group Albums
* ''Moment'' (Dark Tranquillity album), 2020
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* ''Moments'' (Christine Guldbrand ...
'',
''
The Jerusalem Post
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'', the ''
Jewish Chronicle
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
'', the ''
New York Sun
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'', ''
Jewish Ideas Daily
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'',
and has appeared on
CNN,
MSNBC
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,
and
Fox News
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.
He was a fellow at the
Shalem Center
The Shalem Center ( he, מרכז שלם, ''Merkaz Shalem'') was a Jerusalem research institute that supported academic work in the fields of philosophy, political theory, Jewish and Zionist history, Bible and Talmud, Middle East Studies, archaeolo ...
in
Jerusalem
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, founded by his older brother
Yoram Hazony, until 2007. In 2004–2007, he served as
editor in chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
of ''
Azure'', its
quarterly
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.
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.
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:
*
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.
References
External links
Official website
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Living people
American emigrants to Israel
Israeli Jews
Israeli editors
Yeshiva University alumni
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Israeli journalists
1969 births
Jewish American writers
21st-century American Jews