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:

• "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