For 16 years he worked as senior editor and co-founder of Arutz Sheva's "Israel National News".
Fendel authored a book on Jewish prayer entitled One Thing I Ask (Feldheim, June 1998).
He translated several Hebrew books into English, including the six-volume "Borne Upon a Spirit" series by Rabbi Shabtai Sabato, a work on Chanukah by Professor Hagi Ben-Artzi, a Torah/science work on locusts by Rabbi Yoel Shvartz and Netanel Schorr, several works by Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson, and others.
Fendel is married to Bina (nee Ehrenkranz), and they have eight children and numerous grandchildren, all living in Israel.
He attended Hebrew Academy of Nassau County, and then Netiv Meir Yeshiva High School and Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav, both in Jerusalem.