David Hazony

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.[2]

Hazony has written for the New Republic,[3] CNN.com,[4] The Forward,[5] Commentary,[6] Moment,[7] the Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Chronicle, the New York Sun, and Jewish Ideas Daily.[8] 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.[9] He has appeared on CNN,[10] MSNBC,[11] and Fox News.[12]

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.[13]