Yoram Hazony
Yoram Hazony, born in 1964 in Rehovot, Israel, is an Israeli-American philosopher, Bible scholar, and political theorist whose work has shaped contemporary conservative thought. Hazony earned his B.A. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University in 1986 and later completed his Ph.D. in Political Theory at Rutgers University in 1993. He is the president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and serves as chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation, where he has been instrumental in organizing the National Conservatism conferences, a platform for discussing the principles of national sovereignty and cultural heritage. His book, The Virtue of Nationalism (2018), won the Conservative Book of the Year award in 2019 and argues for independent nation-states’ moral and political benefits over globalist ideologies. In 2022, he published Conservatism: A Rediscovery, exploring the roots of conservative philosophy in Western and biblical traditions. Hazony has written extensively on the Hebrew Bible, philosophy, and the political challenges of modernity. He resides in Jerusalem with his wife, Yael, and their nine children.