David Horovitz

Other people have the similar name David Horowitz

David Horovitz (Hebrew: דוד הוֹרוֹביץ‎) (born 12 August 1962) is an Israeli journalist, author and speaker, formerly the Editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post.

Biography

Born in London in 1962, Horovitz immigrated to Israel in 1983, and he worked for the Post from 1983 to 1990. He then worked at The Jerusalem Report, where he was the editor from 1998 and publisher from 2001. In October 2004, Horovitz rejoined the Post as editor-in-chief. David announced he was leaving the Jerusalem Post in a postscript to his final editor's notes column on Friday July 1st, 2011. His final column for the Post featured an interview of Jimmy Wales.

Horovitz has also written from Israel for newspapers around the world, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Irish Times and The Independent (London). He has been a frequent interviewee on IBA, CNN, the BBC, NPR and other TV and radio stations.

Horovitz is the author of Still Life with Bombers: Israel in the Age of Terrorism (2004) and of A Little Too Close to God : The Thrills and Panic of a Life in Israel (2000). He edited and co-wrote The Jerusalem Report’s 1996 biography of Yitzhak Rabin, Shalom, Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, which won the U.S. National Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction.

In 1995, he received the B'nai B'rith World Center award for journalism for his coverage of the 1994 AMIA bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. In 2005, he received the JDC award for journalism on Israel and Diaspora affairs.

He performed his army reserve service in the Education Corps. He and his wife Lisa have three children.

Books

• Shalom, Friend : The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin (1996)
• A Little Too Close to God : The Thrills and Panic of a Life in Israel (2000)
• Inside Israel: The Faiths, The People, and the Modern Conflict of the World's Holiest Land (2002)
• Still Life with Bombers: Israel in the Age of Terrorism (2004)

External links

• David Horovitz's Website, http://davidhorovitz.com, retrieved 2010-08-01 . The author's website.
• http://www.harrywalker.com/speaker/David-Horovitz.cfm?Spea_ID=1496. Lecture bureau.
• Interview: David Horovitz Discusses Israel's Intricate Gaza Withdrawal
• The Personal and the Political: Talking with David Horovitz
• Jimmy Wales’s benevolent Wikipedia wisdom

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