Before coming to Louisville, Rabbi David served for four years as Executive Director for the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism (the Reform Movement in Israel). With a staff of more than twenty, he represented the IMPJ internationally, in contacts with the Israeli government and in all other matters. He also served on the boards of the Council of Reform Rabbis, the Joint Conversion Institute — where Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Rabbis teach together more than 2,000 people — and at the Israel Religious Action Center.

Prior to that, Rabbi David held positions as rabbi for Har-El Congregation, the first Reform congregation in Israel; as Director for the Progressive Beit Midrash; as Director of the Education and Culture Department for Beit Shmuel; and Executive Director and Educational Director of Hamdat, the Association for the Freedom of Science, Religion and Culture in Israel.

A founding member of Kibbutz Lotan, the second Reform Kibbutz in Israel, Rabbi David has dual American and Israeli citizenship. For four years, he served in the paratrooper’s unit of the Israel Defense Forces.

Rabbi David has edited three books: Baruch She’assani Isha (Praised be the One Who Made Me a Woman) about women in Judaism from biblical times to the present, The War of Gog and Magog: The Jewish Messianic Idea, and Who is a Jew in Our Times?. He wrote about the portion “Be-ha’alotekha” for the book Opening the Week. He has also published articles in scholarly journals.

Rabbi David is married to Yaala Ariel-Joel. They are the parents of Haggai.