Biography
I grew up near Albany, NY, and moved to Israel 28 years ago. I lived mostly in the Jerusalem area and moved to Tel Aviv in 2006; then to Beersheva in 2009. For a long time I was mainly a fiction writer, but I would occasionally contribute articles on Israel/politics to American Jewish magazines, and I wrote many book reviews and occasional op-eds for the Jerusalem Post. In 2003, after hearing from maybe the 20th literary agency that "your novel combines the best virtues of Tolstoy, Cervantes, Dickens, and Kafka and is about the best thing we've ever read--but we don't see a market for it," I decided to switch the focus to the journalistic writing. Since then I've been writing especially for Frontpage Magazine, and have also published a good deal in recent years in Pajamas Media and American Spectator. I've also written for American Thinker, Ynet, Israel National News, and the Jewish Press. In addition, I'm a self-taught pianist, posting videos on YouTube under the name TheIsraDave. And more recently I've also returned to literary activity.
