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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).
Left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement, October 25, 2026; right: An AI-generated image of a nuclear strike on Tel Aviv, posted on the X account of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 25, 2026. (Screenshot/GPO, X/Benjamin Netanyahu)
October 26, 2026, 2:32 pm
Netanyahu, desperate, now tells us we’ll all die if we don’t re-elect him
The PM is disseminating Iranian-style propaganda showing Tel Aviv under a mushroom cloud, and reportedly pressing his IDF chief to act ‘relating to Iran’ and potentially trigger a ‘miscalculation’
By David Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center, with back to camera) campaigns in the northern city of Haifa ahead of the upcoming election, October 14, 2026. (Sharon Leibel/Flash90)
October 21, 2026, 5:48 pm
For Israel’s sake, Netanyahu has to go
He failed us on October 7, and every day since by refusing to answer for it. He clung to power, and now promises the same shameful coalition, with the same divisive and dangerous policies
By David Horovitz
Founding editor David Horovitz joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI/AFP)
October 20, 2026, 2:34 pm
Daily Briefing Oct. 20 – A Qatar mole in the PM’s office?
Editor David Horovitz unravels the latest in the Qatargate saga, asks whether the US president’s endorsement is such a boon, and delves into electioneering a week from the vote
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) interviewed on the pro-government Channel 14, October 13, 2026. (Screenshot); Left, from top: Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot at a youth conference in Jerusalem, October 11, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Former PM and B'Yachad party chairman Naftali Bennett in Herzliya, September 23, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90); Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Liberman (Gili Yaari/Flash90))
October 14, 2026, 5:03 pm
Unless the opposition steps up its game, Netanyahu, the PM of Oct. 7, could yet survive this election
It’s a combination of his own shameless efforts to rewrite history, his opponents’ inability to adequately hold him to account for that blackest of days and much more besides, and, perhaps, Israel’s changing demographics
By David Horovitz
Passengers from flydubai flight FZ1073 walk through the arrivals hall at Ben Gurion International Airport, after their original flight from Dubai to Israel made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia following a terror attack by the copilot, who attacked the captain and tried to crash the plane, September 30, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 8, 2026, 2:03 am
As with Oct. 7, so too with Sept. 30’s flydubai attack: A failure to prevent obvious deadly threats, and a refusal to take responsibility
The gaping holes in security for passengers on foreign airlines serving Israel truly boggle the mind. Until they are clearly addressed, travelers should be very careful in their choices… And so, too, should Israeli voters
By David Horovitz
Yashar party leader and former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot campaigns ahead of Israel’s upcoming general election, in Kiryat Malachi, August 17, 2026. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)
October 6, 2026, 5:56 pm
Bereaved by war, determined to heal, protect and revive Israel: Gadi Eisenkot’s prime ministerial mission
In an impassioned interview with The Times of Israel, the opposition frontrunner explains why he stayed in politics after his son was killed in Gaza, how he would safeguard Israel and return it to the community of nations, and why Netanyahu, the PM of Oct. 7, must be sent home
By Tal Schneider and David Horovitz
Editor David Horovitz joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI/Flash90)
October 6, 2026, 3:06 pm
Daily Briefing Oct. 6 – Echoes of Oct. 7 in the failures exposed by flydubai near-disaster
Editor David Horovitz on the unbelievable yet true saga of terrorism and heroism in the air, and a deep dive into the state of the nation’s spirit 3 years after the Hamas onslaught
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz
Passengers who were on the flydubai aircraft bound for Israel from the United Arab Emirates, on which the copilot tried to stab the captain in an alleged attempt to crash the plane, arrive back home at Ben Gurion Airport, September 30, 2026. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)
September 30, 2026, 7:39 pm
Unprecedented: Extraordinary heroism and near-miraculous circumstances avert an airplane catastrophe
There appears to be no prior instance of passengers thwarting a pilot’s attempt to crash a commercial airliner
By David Horovitz
Founding editor David Horovitz joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI/ Boarding1Now/iStock/Screenshot via Google Maps)
September 30, 2026, 2:33 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 30 – Israelis land safely in Saudi Arabia after suspected plane terror
Editor David Horovitz on the developing facts surrounding the redirected flydubai flight, rare condemnations following extremist settler violence, and electioneering 4 weeks from vote
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to speak during the 81st United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, on September 24, 2026. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)
September 25, 2026, 2:41 am
Netanyahu’s strong defense of Israel unlikely to sway critics abroad. Will it move voters at home?
The PM worked to dismantle the foul genocide allegation, and belatedly denounced Qatar. But his omissions, and his assertions of national unity in a society whose rifts he has widened, will have stung for many Israelis
By David Horovitz
Founding editor David Horovitz joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI/Flash90)
September 24, 2026, 2:40 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 24 – Did Israel just bar all Arab political parties from running? Not so fast
Editor David Horovitz on the West Bank ramming attack on Israel’s US envoy’s son, anti-Israel rhetoric at the UN General Assembly, and political campaigns, five weeks until elections
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz
Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar party, holds a meet-and-greet with people at a coffee shop in Jerusalem as part of his election campaign, on August 12, 2026. (ilia YEFIMOVICH/AFP)
September 23, 2026, 5:27 pm
Eisenkot does not have this election sewn up. So why is he barely campaigning?
More than half the electorate wants Netanyahu gone. Yet the foremost candidate to replace him is ceding the spotlight and the agenda
By David Horovitz
Then opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu looks out over a right-wing rally in Jerusalem's Zion Square in 1995. The slogan on the sign partially visible below him reads: 'The nation did not decide.' (screen capture: YouTube)
September 16, 2026, 5:17 pm
The writing is on the wall, again
The election campaign is turning toxic. The prime minister, who insists he played no role in the incitement that created the poisonous climate prior to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, needs to urgently internalize the lessons of 1995
By David Horovitz
Children stand outside a mosque that was burned during an attack by Israeli settlers early in the morning in the West Bank village of Qusra, July 26, 2026. On its wall, Hebrew graffiti reads 'Revenge Benayahu,' referring to an Israeli settlement security squad member killed during clashes with Palestinians in the village of Tell a week before. (AP/Leo Correa)
September 9, 2026, 5:46 pm
This New Year, let’s start to restore the Israel that is a light unto the nations
We shouldn’t need Ed Miliband — way off with some parts of his critique but spot on with others — to remind us that indulging deadly settler violence against Palestinian civilians is shameful
By David Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara at Israel's 75th anniversary Independence Day ceremony, held at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem on April 25, 2023. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)
September 2, 2026, 5:36 pm
Netanyahu, who set policy and held the levers of power, now seeks to pin all blame for October 7 on others
Desperate for reelection, the PM claims he was a political victim on Oct. 7, while his wife spreads a foul conspiracy theory; but there’s no escaping that the invasion took place on his watch, by a terrorist government whose rule in Gaza he insistently funded
By David Horovitz
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