Hillel Fendel


Hillel Fendel was, for 16 years, senior editor and co-founder of Arutz Sheva's "Israel National News" and also works as an author and editor. He worked as a teacher and rabbi in the past.
Fendel has authored both news articles and op-eds on IsraelNationalNews.com. He currently co-authors a biweekly column in the Jewish Press on Jerusalem affairs.
Fendel authored a book on Jewish prayer entitled One Thing I Ask. The book was published in both Hebrew and English.
He co-authored a book with Yitzchak Herskovitz, and edited three books: Nine Men Wanted for a Minyan by his father Rabbi Meyer Fendel, a biography of Rabbi She'ar Yashuv Cohen, and a book by Prof. Mordechai Rothenberg. He translated several Hebrew books into English, including the six-volume "Borne Upon a Spirit" series by Rabbi Shabtai Sabato, a work by Prof. Hagi Ben-Artzi, a Torah/science work on locusts by Rabbi Yoel Shvartz and Netanel Schorr, several works by Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson, and others.

Personal life

Fendel is a son of Rabbi Meyer Fendel, founder of Hebrew Academy of Nassau County, and the brother of Rabbi Dovid Fendel, founder of the Hesder Yeshiva of Sderot. He is a nephew of Rabbi Zechariah Fendel, the late Orthodox Jewish educator and author. He is also a great-grandson of Zecharia Dershowitz, founder of one of the first Yiddish communities in America, and a grand-nephew of Louis Dershowitz, one of the original founders of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas of Brooklyn, NY.