Yoram Hazony

Yoram Hazony is Provost and co-founder of the Shalem Center and the author of several books on Israel.

He received his B.A from Princeton University where he met Daniel Polisar and Joshua Weinstein with whom he went on to found the Shalem Center in 1994. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University.

He worked as president and senior fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion until becoming provost and director of its project in Jewish philosophical theology.

According to an article in Haaretz, Hazony is a former confidant of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Affiliations

• Shalem Center

Publications

• The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture: An Introduction (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
• L’Etat Juif: Sionisme, Post-Sionisme et Destins d’Israel, trans. Claire Darmon (Paris: Lyber-Eclat, 2007)
• The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel’s Soul (New York: Basic Books and The New Republic, 2000)
• The Dawn: Political Teachings of the Book of Esther (Jerusalem: Shalem Press, 2000)
• David Hazony, Yoram Hazony, and Michael Oren, eds., New Essays on Zionism (Jerusalem: Shalem Press, 2006)