David Yair Hazony (born 1969) is an American-born Israeli writer, translator, and editor. He was the founding editor of The Tower Magazine from 2013 to 2017, [1] and from 2017 to 2020 served as executive director of the Israel Innovation Fund. He currently is an independent editor with Wicked Son Books.
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 , [2] CNN.com, [3] The Forward , [4] Commentary , [5] Moment , [6] The Jerusalem Post , the Jewish Chronicle , the New York Sun , Jewish Ideas Daily , [7] and has appeared on CNN, [8] MSNBC, [9] and Fox News. [10]
He was a fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, founded by his older brother Yoram Hazony, until 2007. In 2004–2007, he served as editor in chief of Azure , its quarterly. [11]
From 2013 to 2017, he served as founding editor of The Tower Magazine , an online publication about Israel and the Middle East published by the Washington, D.C.–based Israel Project.
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