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 2017–2020 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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