David Yair Hazony (born 1969) is an American-born

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writer, translator, and editor. He was the founding editor of ''

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'' 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 Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, received a B.A. and M.A. from

Yeshiva University Yeshiva University is a private Orthodox Jewish university with four campuses in New York City."About YU
on the Yeshiva Universit ...

, 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 ''The New Republic'' is an American magazine of commentary on politics, contemporary culture, and the arts. Founded in 1914 by several leaders of the progressive movement, it attempted to find a balance between "a liberalism centered in hum ...

'',"Virtually Normal"
''The New Republic'', June 11, 2008]

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, ''

The Forward ''The Forward'' ( yi, פֿאָרווערטס, Forverts), formerly known as ''The Jewish Daily Forward'', is an American news media organization for a Jewish American audience. Founded in 1897 as a Yiddish-language daily socialist newspaper, ' ...

'', ''

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'',David Hazony's posts on Contentions
, the weblog of Commentary Magazine. ''

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'', ''

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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 ''

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'', ''

Jewish Ideas Daily Jewish Ideas Daily was a website that reported on the news, culture, and political issues relating to Judaism and Israel. Its mission was to be "the premier aggregator and originator of Jewish ideas on the web". It was founded in January 2010 und ...

'', and has appeared on

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, and

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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 ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

, founded by his older brother

Yoram Hazony Yoram Hazony (born 1964) is an Israeli-American philosopher, Bible scholar, and political theorist. He is president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and serves as the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation. Biography Yoram Hazony was born ...

, until 2007. In 2004–2007, he served as

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of '' Azure'', its

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. From 2013 to 2017, he served as founding editor of

, an online publication about Israel and the Middle East published by the Washington, D.C.-based

Israel Project The Israel Project (TIP) was a US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-government organization. According to TIP, it was not affiliated with any government, and according to its website, it had a team with decades of experience in media, government ...

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

, eds.), ''New Essays on Zionism'' (Shalem Press, 2007). * Translated

Emuna Elon Emuna Elon (Hebrew: אמונה אלון) (born 1955) is an Israeli author, journalist, and women's rights activist. Biography Emuna Elon was born in 1955 in Jerusalem, the daughter of rabbi and professor Pinchas Hacohen Peli and his wife Pnina. ...

's novel ''If You Awaken Love'' (Toby, 2007), a finalist for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award. * Translated

Uri Bar-Joseph Uri Bar-Joseph is professor emeritus in the Department for International Relations of The School for Political Science at Haifa University. He specializes in national security, intelligence studies, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He earned h ...

, "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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