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David Hazony

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David Yair Hazony (born 1969) is an American-born Israeli writer, translator, and editor.1 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. 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 . David Hazony's posts on Contentions , the weblog of Commentary Magazine. " "Welcome to Fire-Extinguisher Judaism," Moment, May/June 2010" .2

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