David Horovitz

David Horovitz was born in 1962 in London

Horovitz was born in London in 1962, to a family that had moved there from Germany in 1937. He is the great-grandson of Rabbi Márkus Horovitz.

He immigrated to Israel in 1983 and served in the Education Corps of the IDF. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He first worked for The Jerusalem Post and moved to The Jerusalem Report when it was founded in 1990. He became its editor-in-chief in 1998 and returned to The Jerusalem Post as editor-in-chief in 2004. He also wrote about Israel for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Irish Times and The Independent.

In 2011 he resigned and, with Seth Klarman, set up The Times of Israel, an English-language website in Jerusalem that launched in February 2012. His books include works from 2000 and 2004 about life in Israel and terrorism. In 2014 he received a lifetime achievement award in Jewish journalism from B'nai B'rith.

In September 2025 he visited Damascus with a group of mostly American Jews, at the invitation of Syria's new government, to report after the fall of the Assad regime. He is married to Lisa, and they have 3 children.