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David Horovitz is the founding editor of The Times of Israel. He is the author of Still Life with Bombers (2004) and A Little Too Close to God (2000), and co-author of Shalom Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin (1996). He previously edited The Jerusalem Post (2004-2011) and The Jerusalem Report (1998-2004).
Yonatan Sindel/Flash90: An ultra-Orthodox man faces off with police officers during enforcement of coronavirus emergency regulations, in Jerusalem, January 26, 2021.
It is almost impossible to comprehend how certain young ultra-Orthodox men brought up in a community whose core value is the study of Judaism, a faith so centered upon the sanctity of life, have emerged as the most prominent, and most violent, opposition in Israel to restrictions designed solely to help minimize the loss of life from the COVID-19 pandemic.