David Horowitz

In 1924, as a young Zionist pioneer, Horowitz traveled to Palestine, where he learned Hebrew, worked the land, and immersed himself in the biblical heritage he believed still spoke to the modern Jewish spirit. He met and married Pola Kleinowna from Poland during this time.  The couple returned briefly to her hometown of Chrzanów, where their son Emmanuel was born. Horowitz intended to bring his young family to the United States, but circumstances prevented their departure. In 1938 Pola died unexpectedly, and in the following year Emmanuel and the entire family were caught in the Nazi invasion and murdered at Auschwitz. This profound loss shaped Horowitz’s life and sharpened his dedication to Jewish survival and dignity.

In 1944 he founded United Israel World Union, an educational organization dedicated to the promotion of the ideals of the Decalogue faith on a universal scale. Soon after, he secured press credentials at the newly formed United Nations under World Union Press, an arm of UIWU. He attended the opening sessions in San Francisco and maintained his UN office for more than fifty years. His weekly syndicated column eventually appeared in roughly forty Anglo-Jewish newspapers, making him one of the most widely read Jewish journalists of his time.

His career at the UN extended far beyond Middle Eastern affairs. Horowitz served as president of both the United Nations Correspondents Association and the Foreign Press Association.