Hillel Fendel ( he, הלל פנדל) was, for 16 years, senior editor and co-founder of Arutz Sheva's "Israel National News" and also works as an

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and editor. He worked as a teacher and rabbi in the past. Fendel has authored both news articles and op-eds on IsraelNationalNews.com. He currently co-authors a biweekly column in the Jewish Press on Jerusalem affairs. Fendel authored a book on Jewish prayer entitled ''One Thing I Ask'' (Feldheim, June 1998). The book was published in both Hebrew and English. He co-authored a book with Yitzchak Herskovitz (both Hebrew and English), and edited three books: ''Nine Men Wanted for a Minyan'' by his father Rabbi Meyer Fendel, a biography of Rabbi

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, and a book by Professor Mordechai Rothenberg. He translated several Hebrew books into English, including the six-volume "Borne Upon a Spirit" series by Rabbi Shabtai Sabato, a work by Prof. Hagi Ben-Artzi, a Torah/science work on locusts by Rabbi Yoel Shvartz and Netanel Schorr, several works by Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson, and others.

Personal life

Fendel is a son of Rabbi Meyer Fendel, founder of Hebrew Academy of Nassau County, and the brother of Rabbi Dovid Fendel, founder of the

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. He is a nephew of Rabbi Zechariah Fendel, the late Orthodox Jewish educator and author. He is also a great-grandson of

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, founder of one of the first Yiddish communities in America, and a grand-nephew of Louis Dershowitz, one of the original founders of

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of Brooklyn, NY.

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