Yoram Hazony is an Israeli philosopher and political theorist. He was born in Rehovot, Israel in 1964.

Hazony received his B.A. from Princeton University

Princeton University

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 in East Asian Studies in 1986, and his Ph.D. from Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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 in Political Philosophy in 1993. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife Yael Hazony and nine children.

In 1994, Hazony founded the Shalem Center

Shalem Center

The Shalem Center is a Jerusalem research institute that supports academic work in the fields of philosophy, political theory, Jewish and Zionist history, Bible and Talmud, Middle East Studies, archaeology, economics, and strategic studies...

 in Jerusalem together with colleagues Ofir Haivry, Daniel Polisar, and Joshua Weinstein. Hazony served as president of the Center until 2002. He is presently Provost and a Senior Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion (PPR). Hazony is responsible for academic aspects of Shalem's current effort to open Israel's first liberal arts college

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Hazony serves on the Board of Advisors of the John Templeton Foundation

John Templeton Foundation

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, and is a Senior Editor for the peer-reviewed journal Hebraic Political Studies

Hebraic Political Studies

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He is author of a regular weblog on philosophy, Israel, Judaism, and higher education called Jerusalem Letters.

Books

• The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture: An Introduction (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)

• 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)

• The Political Philosophy of Jeremiah: Theory, Elaboration, and Applications, (doctoral dissertation, 1993)

Edited books

• Introduction to Aaron Wildavsky, Moses as Political Leader (Jerusalem: Shalem Press, 2005).
• David Hazony
  David Hazony
  David Hazony is an American-born Israeli writer and magazine editor.David Hazony has studied at Columbia University, received a B.A. and M.A...
  
  , Yoram Hazony, and Michael Oren, eds., New Essays on Zionism, (Jerusalem: Shalem Press, 2006).

Translated books

• Iddo Netanyahu, Yoni's Last Battle: the Rescue at Entebbe, 1976, Yoram Hazony, trans. (Jerusalem: Gefen, 2001).

External links

• http://jerusalemletters.com
• http://shalem.org.il