David Horovitz

David Horovitz ( he, דוד הוֹרוֹויץ; born 12 August 1962) is a British-born Israeli journalist, author and speaker. He is the founding editor of '' The Times of Israel'', a current affairs website based in Jerusalem that launched in February 2012. Previously, he had been the editor-in-chief of '' The Jerusalem Post'' and '' The Jerusalem Report''.

Biography

David Horovitz was born in London. He is the great-grandson of Rabbi Márkus Horovitz.

Horovitz immigrated to Israel in 1983. He served in the Education and Youth Corps of the Israeli Defense Forces. He and his wife Lisa have three children.

Journalism career

David Horovitz worked for the ''Post'' from 1983 to 1990. He then worked at '' The Jerusalem Report'', where he was the editor from 1998 and publisher from 2001. In October 2004, Horovitz rejoined the ''Post'' as editor-in-chief. David announced he was leaving ''The Jerusalem Post'' in a postscript to his final editor's notes column on Friday 1 July 2011. In his final column for the ''Post'', Horovitz interviewed Jimmy Wales. In February 2012, together with Seth Klarman of the Baupost Group, Horovitz launched ''The Times of Israel'', an English-language Israeli news website published out of Jerusalem.

Horovitz has also written for Israel for newspapers around the world, including '' The New York Times'', '' Los Angeles Times'', '' The Irish Times'' and '' The Independent'' in London. He has been a frequent interviewee on IBA, CNN, the BBC, NPR and other TV and radio stations.

Horovitz is the author of ''Still Life with Bombers: Israel in the Age of Terrorism'' (2004) and of ''A Little Too Close to God : The Thrills and Panic of a Life in Israel'' (2000). He edited and co-wrote ''The Jerusalem Reports 1996 biography of Yitzhak Rabin, ''Shalom, Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin'', which won the US National Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction.

In 1995, he received the B'nai B'rith World Center award for journalism for his coverage of the 1994 AMIA bombing of the Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires. In 2005, he received the JDC award for journalism on Israel and Diaspora affairs.

In 2014, Horovitz was awarded B'nai B'rith's Lifetime Achievement Award for Israeli journalism. Accepting the award, Horovitz said: "Honest, fair, independent journalism is in ever shorter supply around the world, most certainly including in Israel... I’m proud to think that in a world with so much partisan, shrill and incitement-filled media, we t The Times of Israelare part of the antidote."

Views and opinions

Horovitz had counted himself among Israel's political left but grew disillusioned with the peace process after the Second Palestinian Intifada. He described himself in 2015 as a member of the "confused middle ground of Israeli politics". His books ''A Little Too Close to God'' (2000) and ''Still Life with Bombers'' (2004) show admiration of the late Yitzhak Rabin and criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Published works

*''Shalom, Friend : The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin'' (1996)
*''A Little Too Close to God: The Thrills and Panic of a Life in Israel'' (2000)
*''Still Life with Bombers: Israel in the Age of Terrorism'' (2004)

References

External links

* http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/starting-the-times-of-israel/
*. The author's website.
* http://www.harrywalker.com/speaker/David-Horovitz.cfm?Spea_ID=1496. Lecture bureau.
Interview: David Horovitz Discusses Israel's Intricate Gaza WithdrawalThe Personal and the Political: Talking with David Horovitz Jimmy Wales’s benevolent Wikipedia wisdom

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