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David Horovitz
David Horovitz
David Horovitz is the founding editor of The Times of Israel. He is the author of "Still Life with Bombers" (2004) and "A Little Too Close to God" (2000), and co-author of "Shalom Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin" (1996). He previously edited The Jerusalem Post (2004-2011) and The Jerusalem Report (1998-2004).
Arsenal's manager Arsene Wenger attends a news conference with Arsenal player Gilberto from Brazil, Monday, April 24 2006 (AP Photo/Fernando Bustamante)
April 20, 2018, 4:50 pm
A grateful farewell to Arsene Wenger from an Arsenal fan and his family far away
The joy of football that the departing coach conveyed to his players formed the sporting centerpiece of my kids' childhood
By David Horovitz
Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party, in his office at the Knesset (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
April 19, 2018, 11:12 am
Yair Lapid: Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer a defender of Israeli democracy
Israelis' second-favorite choice for prime minister charges that the long-serving incumbent does not put the greater good of Israel ahead of his own political interests anymore
By David Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves part of an Iranian drone downed in Israeli airspace on February 10, 2018, during a speech on the third day of the 54th Munich Security Conference (MSC) held at the Bayerischer Hof hotel, in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2018. (Screen capture)
April 14, 2018, 3:36 am
Attack drone revelation shows grave, immediate, adjacent threat to Israel: Iran
Netanyahu has vowed to prevent Iran from establishing a military presence in Syria. But Tehran is getting bolder, and Russia may make Israel's challenge even more complex
By David Horovitz
Attorney Eliad Shraga of the Movement for Quality Government in Israel, pictured during a 2016 Supreme Court hearing on the drafting of ultra-Orthodox youth (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 9, 2018, 3:42 pm
Israel’s descent into corruption as seen by Eliad Shraga, ‘national plumber’
Years ago, a mere whiff of wrongdoing could shame top Israelis into suicide. Today, says the head of the Movement for Quality Government, if you're investigated, you're a celebrity
By David Horovitz
Former national security adviser Maj. Gen. (ret.) Giora Eiland. (Flash90)
April 2, 2018, 7:41 pm
Ex-general: I don’t know what IDF could do if 300,000 try to trample Gaza fence
Giora Eiland, former head of IDF Strategic Planning and of the National Security Council, fears Israel has played into Hamas's hands - and danger could spread to Lebanon, West Bank
By David Horovitz
Islamist Hamas terror group leader Yahya Sinwar shouts slogans and flashes the victory gesture as he takes part in a protest near the border with Israel east of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip on March 30, 2018. (AFP/ Mohammed ABED)
March 31, 2018, 4:50 pm
Just in case anybody forgot what Hamas’s ‘March of Return’ is really all about
Gaza's terrorist rulers make no secret of their agenda. They are out to destroy Israel. Suicide bombers, rockets, and tunnels have failed. So now it's mass marches on the border
By David Horovitz
Gideon Sa'ar speaks at a Likud party conference in Lod, on December 31, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 20, 2018, 8:33 am
Gideon Sa’ar: Instead of new settlements, build up existing ones
Former minister and declared future prime ministerial candidate predicts Israel will annex parts of the West Bank within a decade
By Raphael Ahren and David Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a plenum session in the Israeli parliament on March 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 13, 2018, 8:50 pm
Was Netanyahu’s plan for elections dashed by an opinion poll? That’s ridiculous
A Monday survey showed Likud rising, and Netanyahu the clear favored PM. But a closer look at its findings was shocking for some of his coalition partners, and maybe even for him
By David Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 11, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
March 12, 2018, 9:04 pm
Netanyahu thinks elections can save his skin. He should just come out and say so
There is no 'coalition crisis.' There is, rather, a PM trying to calculate how best to avoid prosecution
By David Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual policy conference at the Washington Convention Center March 6, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
March 6, 2018, 7:04 pm
With inspiring performance at AIPAC, Netanyahu seeks to show he’s indispensable
Showcasing Israel's achievements, explaining how he'll defeat its enemies, PM proves himself peerless. But the 18,000 roaring supporters in DC do not hold his fate in their hands
By David Horovitz
Sixto Rodriguez (right) in concert at the sixth&i synagogue, Washington, DC, March 3, 2018 (ToI staff)
March 4, 2018, 2:51 pm
Down the street from AIPAC, ‘Sugar Man’ Rodriguez plays a shul, muses over Trump
Seated in front of the Ten Commandments, wearing goggles and a white straw hat, a reborn protest singer has them swaying and clapping beneath the stained glass windows
By David Horovitz
Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley thanks the crowd before she speaks at the 2017 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference held at the Verizon Center in Washington, Monday, March 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
March 3, 2018, 8:40 pm
For AIPAC in a polarized America, bipartisanship is a near-impossible challenge
As pro-Israel lobby holds its annual flagship conference in Washington, Israel is no longer an issue of overwhelming consensus
By David Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a persimmon as he opens the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on February 25, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBON)
February 27, 2018, 6:07 pm
The weakening of Israeli democracy
Colleagues marvel at PM's 'luck' in facing down graft claims. In fact, he and his allies are targeting key hierarchies, some of which are complicit in their own falling credibility
By David Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves the Muni World conference in Tel Aviv on February 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)
February 21, 2018, 2:46 pm
Why the choice between Netanyahu and the rule of law is no choice at all
Is Israel going to drum out a skilled PM for a few piffling infractions? Well, it might, but they may not be piffling, and the framers of our laws ensured it won't be done lightly
By David Horovitz
Adela Dworin with Fidel Castro in Havana, in August 2010. Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg is at right. (Cubadebate state media)
February 19, 2018, 6:23 pm
When our woman in Havana asked Fidel Castro to the synagogue Hanukkah party
Adela Dworin doesn't have to live in Cuba. Her friends left for Miami long ago. So why does she stay, running and schnorring for the Jewish community? Here's her story, and Cuba's
By David Horovitz
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