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P. David Hornik
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “freelance writer and translator living in tel aviv and a frequent contributor to frontpagemag”. Today it says “israeli writer”.
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David Hornik (born 1954) is a writer, a translator, and a commentator living in Be'er Sheva , Israel .1 He is the author of the essay collection Choosing Life in Israel (2013) , the novel You Don't Know What Love Is (2018) , the short-story collection Help Me, Rhonda and Other Stories (2019) , and the novel Beside the Still Waters (2019) .2
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freelance writer and translator living in tel aviv and a frequent contributor to frontpagemag
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israeli writer
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