Hillel Fendel is the senior editor and co-founder of Arutz Sheva's "Israel National News" and also works as an author.[1][2] He worked as a teacher and rabbi in the past. He 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 also a nephew of the late Orthodox Jewish educator and author, Rabbi Zechariah Fendel.
Fendel authored a book on Jewish prayer entitled One Thing I Ask (Feldheim, June 1998).[3] The book is published in both Hebrew and English.
Fendel has authored thousands of news articles and several op-eds on IsraelNationalNews.com.
He noted that an agreement between Israel and the Vatican to ratify the 1993 fundamental accord was said to be part of a broader Church conspiracy to capture Jerusalem from the Jews. [4]