Yoram Hazony

Yoram Hazony was born in 1964 in Rehovot

Yoram Hazony was born in Rehovot in 1964 and grew up in the United States, where his family moved to Princeton, New Jersey. His father, Yehonatan, was a physics researcher at Princeton University and later a professor at Boston University. His brother is David Hazony.

He earned a BA in East Asian studies from Princeton University in 1986 and a PhD in political philosophy from Rutgers University in 1993. As a Princeton student he founded and edited The Princeton Tory, a conservative magazine. He married Yael Fulton, whom he met at Princeton, and the couple live in Jerusalem with their 9 children.

In 1994 he cofounded the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, serving as its first president until 2002 and as provost from 2005 to 2012. He helped design the curriculum of Shalem College and founded the journal Azure. From 2010 to 2018 he directed the John Templeton Foundation project in Jewish Philosophical Theology.

In 2013 he founded the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, which he heads, and he chairs the Edmund Burke Foundation. His 2018 book The Virtue of Nationalism was named Conservative Book of the Year in 2019 by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and some critics called it inconsistent. He organized the National Conservatism Conference in England in 2023.