David Hazony
David Yair Hazony is an American-born Israeli 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.
Hazony has written for the New Republic, CNN.com, The Forward, Commentary, Moment, the Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Chronicle, the New York Sun, and Jewish Ideas Daily. He is a regular contributor to Contentions, the weblog of Commentary Magazine. Until 2007, he was a fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, founded by his older brother Yoram Hazony. In 2004–2007, he served as editor in chief of Azure, its quarterly. He has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News.
Hazony has 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. He is a contributing editor at The Forward, where he has published a series of essays about the growing distance between American Jews and Israelis.
Hazony is an expert on the Jewish philosopher Eliezer Berkovits.Books
- Author of The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life, a finalist for the 2010 National Jewish Book Award.
- Edited Eliezer Berkovits, Essential Essays on Judaism ; Eliezer Berkovits, God, Man, and History ; and, New Essays on Zionism.
- Translated Emuna Elon's novel If You Awaken Love, a finalist for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award.
- Translated Uri Bar-Joseph, "The Angel", 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", The Jerusalem Post, December 12, 2017.
- "How Israel Is Solving the Global Water Crisis," The Tower Magazine, October 2015.
