P. David Hornik

P. David Hornik (born 1954) is a freelance writer and a translator, living in Be'er Sheva, Israel. His work has appeared at, among other outlets, PJ Media, FrontPage Magazine, and The Times of Israel. He is the author of the essay collection Choosing Life in Israel (2013), the novel You Don't Know What Love Is (2018) , the short-story collection Help Me, Rhonda and Other Stories (2019) , and the novel Beside the Still Waters (2019).

Life
Hornik was born in New York City and grew up not far from Albany, New York. In 1984 he moved to Israel and has lived in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Beersheba.

Up to 2003 Hornik contributed commentary to the Jerusalem Post and to American Jewish magazines such as Moment, Midstream, and others. Hornik was also a frequent book reviewer for the Jerusalem Post.

Since 2003 Hornik has written for David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com and for PJ Media, blogged at The Times of Israel, and contributed to The American Spectator, American Thinker, ynetnews.com, the Jerusalem Post, The Jewish Press, and IsraelNationalNews.com. His literary work, including poetry and short stories, has been published at National Review and at Theodore Dalrymple's online magazine New English Review.

Hornik's political writing depicts Israel's perseverance in the face of hostility from much of the Arab world and larger Muslim world, emphasizing the importance of Israeli deterrence and resolve alongside a difficult quest for acceptance. Hornik regards the hostility of much of Israel's environment as stemming from deep-seated cultural factors and highlights Israel's smallness, vulnerability, and need to safeguard its remaining strategic assets.

Hornik's fiction deals intensively with human interaction, and with the effects of time, memory, and geography on characters' understanding of themselves and of others.