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Amotz Asa-El is an Israeli author and journalist.[1]

He is a senior commentator and former executive editor of The Jerusalem Post,[2] and a fellow at the Hartman Institute.[3]

Career

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Prior to joining the Post, Asa-El was a foreign correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle and foreign editor of the Hebrew-language financial daily Telegraph.

Having joined The Jerusalem Post as its business editor in 1995, Asa-El was later The Post's News Editor and editor-in-chief of its overseas edition, the International Jerusalem Post, before serving as The Jerusalem Post's executive editor. In these positions, Asa-El led The Post's editorial line that blended economic conservatism, diplomatic pragmatism, political reform and cultural pluralism. As executive editor, overseeing the work of 100 writers, editors, copyeditors, designers and photographers, Asa-El directed the redesign of the daily Jerusalem Post, the remodeling of its weekend magazines and supplements, and the creation of an opinion desk, after having previously created a business desk and reinvented The International Jerusalem Post as an independent news weekly.

Asa-El is the only senior editor in The Jerusalem Post's history who has never held a non-Israeli passport.[citation needed]

From 2006 to 2008 Asa-El led the launch of McGraw/Hill's Hebrew edition of BusinessWeek, and in 2010 he founded the Shalom Hartman Institute's Hebrew-language journal of thought Dorsheni.[citation needed]

A senior editor of the Jerusalem Report, a Middle East English-language newsmagazine, Asa-El has been for the past 20 years[when?] a frequent commentator of Middle Eastern affairs on outlets like Reuters,[4] BBC,[5] CNN,[6] SKY,[7] Voice of America,[8] France24[9] and Israeli TV.[10]

Asa-El's weekly column "Middle Israel" has appeared in The Jerusalem Post since 1995, and aims to present in English the Israeli centrist's view on subjects including politics, foreign affairs, business, culture, and religion. Asa-El has been quoted or published by The New York Times,[11] The Washington Post,[12] The Wall Street Journal,[13] The Los Angeles Times,[14] BBC.com,[15] Politico,[16] USA Today,[17] Haaretz,[18] The Economist,[19] Time magazine,[20] The New Republic,[21] Le Figaro,[22] The Daily Telegraph,[23] L'Express,[24] Azure, Harvard Political Review,[25] The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, Jornal do Brasil, The Times of India, Politiken, and others.

Asa-El's five-part series in The Jerusalem Report about the future of the Jewish people won the B'nai B'rith Journalism Award for 2018.[26]

Since 2008 Asa-El has been a columnist for Dow Jones' MarketWatch, analyzing the Arab, Turkish, Iranian and Israeli economies as well as global issues like Western demographics,[27] Swiss monetary policy,[28] British unity,[29] and the war in Ukraine.[30]

Asa-El has been invited on lecture tours to the US,[31] Canada,[32] China,[33] Brazil,[34] Australia[citation needed] and New Zealand[35] where he addressed business leaders, diplomats, legislators, journalists, clergy and academic forums on issues relating to Middle Eastern, international and Jewish affairs. His lectures were hosted among others by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Jewish National Fund, Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, the Canada Israel Committee, the Australia Israel Jewish Affairs Council, United Israel Appeal, Hadassah and B'nai B'rith, as well as a variety of universities from Harvard and Columbia to the University of Melbourne and the Royal Military College of Canada.[citation needed]

Books

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Asa-El' books include The Diaspora and the Lost Tribes of Israel (Universe, 2004), a geographic history of the Jewish people,[36] and The Jewish March of Folly (Yediot, 2019) a revisionist interpretation of the Jewish people's political history from antiquity to the dawn of Zionism.

Education

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Asa-El holds graduate degrees in journalism from Columbia University in New York, in Jewish history from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ "B'nai B'rith World Center-Jerusalem Announces Winners of 2018 Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage". 26 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Amotz Asa-El". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com.
  3. ^ "Amotz Asa-El". Shalom Hartman Institute.
  4. ^ Heller, Jeffrey (14 March 2013). "Israel's Netanyahu clinches coalition deals". Reuters.com. Reuters.
  5. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Amotz Asa-El on BBC, Obama lands in Israel – via YouTube.
  6. ^ Amotz Asa-El on CNN re Israeli elections 2019. Archived from the original on 10 December 2021 – via YouTube.
  7. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Amotz Asa-El on Sky TV, Israel general election – via YouTube.
  8. ^ "Palestinians Meet Israeli Economic Goodwill Gestures with Skepticism". 13 September 2021.
  9. ^ @F24Debate (14 December 2021). ""He was reckless!". @MiddleIsrael on President #Trump's withdrawal from Iranian #NuclearDeal ☢️, leaving region v..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  10. ^ IBA News VOD (2 June 2016). "Amotz Asa-El on IBA News". Archived from the original on 21 December 2021 – via YouTube.
  11. ^ Stephens, Bret (28 May 2023). "In Israel, Democracy Still Holds Target". The New York Times.
  12. ^ Booth, William (29 July 2014). "Israelis support Netanyahu and Gaza war, despite rising deaths on both sides". The Washington Post. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  13. ^ Asa-El, Amotz (26 March 2013). "Shards of a Reputation". The Wall Street Journal.
  14. ^ "Benny Gantz, both politically and personally, is the anti-Netanyahu". Los Angeles Times. 18 September 2019.
  15. ^ "Viewpoint: Israel's lightning rod". BBC. 11 November 2005.
  16. ^ Asa-El, Amotz (22 September 2016). "Israel, the Switzerland of the Middle East". Politico.
  17. ^ "America's Muslims can fight radicalization: Column". USA Today.
  18. ^ Asael, Amotz (1 December 2015). אלו שמבינים בביטחון. Haaretz.
  19. ^ "A systemic problem". The Economist. 3 April 2008.
  20. ^ Vick, Karl (15 March 2013). "Netanyahu Finally Forms a Government, But It's Nearly As Painful As The Election". Time.
  21. ^ Republic, The New (29 September 2003). "City of God". The New Republic.
  22. ^ "Lettre d'un Israélien à Lionel Jospin". Partito Radicale Nonviolento.
  23. ^ Butcher, Tim (17 January 2009). "Why Arab states are unmoved by plight of Hamas: most fear Muslim militancy despite their dislike of Israel". The Daily Telegraph.
  24. ^ "Mahmoud Abbas, l'espoir déchu". L'Express. 9 January 2009.
  25. ^ "Spring 2007". issuu. March 2007.
  26. ^ "'Post' columnist Asa-El wins B'nai B'rith journalism award - Israel News - Jerusalem Post". The Jerusalem Post. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  27. ^ Asa-El, Amotz. "To grow, the rich countries must have more babies". MarketWatch.
  28. ^ Asa-El, Amotz. "What the Swiss should have learned from Stanley Fischer". MarketWatch.
  29. ^ Asa-El, Amotz. "Scotland's independence would be economic, moral disaster". MarketWatch.
  30. ^ Asa-El, Amotz. "U.S. should be neutral on Ukraine". MarketWatch.
  31. ^ Waxman, Andrea (24 February 2006). "Israeli journalist Amotz Asa-El to visit Milwaukee". The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on 3 June 2010. Retrieved 5 July 2010.
  32. ^ "Le journaliste israélien Amotz Asa-El au Devoir - De l'utopie au pragmatisme". Le Devoir. 7 June 2005.
  33. ^ "Shanghai: Asia and the Jewish World: A Global Leadership Conversation". Jewish Funders Network.
  34. ^ "Seminário Internacional de Jornalismo". Portal Nacional de Saúde :: Unimed do Brasil :: Eventos.
  35. ^ "Amotz Asa-El: On Israel". Radio New Zealand. 17 March 2011.
  36. ^ Lefkowitz, Jay (17 March 2005). "Homes Away From Home". The Wall Street Journal.
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