David Berlin

{{short description|Canadian editor}}

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| office1 = Leader of The Bridge Party of Canada

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| term_start1 = 2015

| term_end1 = 2017

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| birth_name = David Zafrir Berlin

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|05|14}}

| birth_place = Israel

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| party = New Democratic Party (2000–2015, 2017–present)
Bridge Party (2015–2017)

| alma_mater = University of Chicago

| allegiance = Israel

| branch = Israeli Army

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• Yom Kippur War
• Battle of the Sinai

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David Zafrir Berlin (born May 14, 1951){{cite web |last1=Berlin |first1=David |title=The Moral Lives of Israelis: Reinventing the Dream State |url=https://www.amazon.fr/Moral-Lives-Israelis-Reinventing-Dream-ebook/dp/B004FGMDAA |publisher=Random House Canada |access-date=2 January 2021 |language=en |date=23 August 2011}} is a Canadian editor, writer, politician, educator best known for being the co-founder and first editor of The Walrus from 2003 to 2004 and former editor and owner of the Literary Review of Canada from 1998 to 2001. He has edited several books including What’s Left: The New Democratic Party in Renewal (2001) as well as over a hundred essays and articles.{{Cite web |url=http://davidberlin.ca/bio/ |title=Bio – David Berlin |access-date=2017-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131023629/http://davidberlin.ca/bio/ |archive-date=2018-01-31 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |title=The Moral Lives of Israelis, by David Berlin |website=The Globe and Mail |date=26 August 2011 |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/the-moral-lives-of-israelis-by-david-berlin/article592983/ |access-date=2 January 2021|last1=Al-Shawaf |first1=Rayyan }}

Berlin was born in Israel in 1951 but raised in Toronto, where his family settled in 1953. He returned to Israel in 1970, living there for eight years, before returning to Canada.

He served his military duty with the Israeli Army in the reconnaissance unit, Sayeret Shaked under Ariel Sharon's command and took part in Sharon's Suez campaign during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. He attended medical school at Tel-Aviv University and then graduated from the University of Chicago's program on social and political thought, and taught at several universities.{{cite web |title=David Berlin {{!}} Penguin Random House Canada |url=http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/78200/david-berlin-0 |access-date=2 January 2021 |date=2 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502183034/http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/78200/david-berlin-0 |archive-date=2017-05-02 }}

Berlin's writing has appeared in Saturday Night, the Literary Review of Canada, The Globe and Mail, the National Post and Ha'aretz among other publications.

Berlin was the New Democratic Party of Canada's candidate in Toronto Centre in the 2000 federal election. In 2015, he founded and led of The Bridge Party of Canada, running as its candidate in University—Rosedale in the 2015 federal election. The party was deregistered on January 31, 2017.

In 2011, Berlin wrote The Moral Lives of Israelis: Reinventing the Dream State in which he argued for Israel to become "not a Jewish state, but only a state rather like New York City – a state in which many Jews live."

In June 2017, Berlin announced his candidacy for the leadership of the NDP. However, he was unable to submit a deposit and the required number of nominating signatures by the July 3, 2017 deadline and thus did not qualify as a candidate.