Amotz Asa-El Explained

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

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 Posts News Editor and editor-in-chief of its overseas edition, the International Jerusalem Post, before serving as The Jerusalem Posts executive editor. In these positions, Asa-El led The Posts 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 history who has never held a non-Israeli passport.

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.

A senior editor of the Jerusalem Report, a Middle East English-language newsmagazine, Asa-El has been for the past 20 years 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 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.

Books

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

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: B'nai B'rith World Center-Jerusalem Announces Winners of 2018 Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage . 26 April 2018 .
  2. Web site: Amotz Asa-El. The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com.
  3. Web site: Amotz Asa-El. Shalom Hartman Institute.
  4. News: Israel's Netanyahu clinches coalition deals. Reuters. 14 March 2013. Reuters.com. Heller. Jeffrey.
  5. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Amotz Asa-El on BBC, Obama lands in Israel . YouTube.
  6. live. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211210/Ce5wWkwGRrg. 2021-12-10. Amotz Asa-El on CNN re Israeli elections 2019 . YouTube.
  7. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Amotz Asa-El on Sky TV, Israel general election . YouTube.
  8. Web site: Palestinians Meet Israeli Economic Goodwill Gestures with Skepticism. 13 September 2021 .
  9. 1470836619984916480. F24Debate. "He was reckless!". @MiddleIsrael on President #Trump's withdrawal from Iranian #NuclearDeal ☢️, leaving region v.... 14 December 2021.
  10. Web site: Amotz Asa-El on IBA News. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/WotlJXKuDmk . 2021-12-21 . live. IBA News VOD. 2 June 2016. YouTube.
  11. News: In Israel, Democracy Still Holds Target. Bret. Stephens. 28 May 2023. The New York Times.
  12. News: Booth . William . Israelis support Netanyahu and Gaza war, despite rising deaths on both sides . The Washington Post . 29 July 2014 . 23 March 2019.
  13. News: Shards of a Reputation. Amotz. Asa-El. The Wall Street Journal. 26 March 2013.
  14. Web site: Benny Gantz, both politically and personally, is the anti-Netanyahu. 18 September 2019. Los Angeles Times.
  15. News: Viewpoint: Israel's lightning rod. 11 November 2005. BBC.
  16. Web site: Israel, the Switzerland of the Middle East. Amotz. Asa-El. 22 September 2016. Politico.
  17. Web site: America's Muslims can fight radicalization: Column. USA Today.
  18. News: https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/.premium-1.2789112 . subscription. he:אלו שמבינים בביטחון. Amotz . Asael . 1 December 2015. Haaretz.
  19. News: A systemic problem. 3 April 2008. The Economist.
  20. Netanyahu Finally Forms a Government, But It's Nearly As Painful As The Election. Karl. Vick. Time. 15 March 2013.
  21. City of God. The New. Republic. 29 September 2003. The New Republic.
  22. Web site: Lettre d'un Israélien à Lionel Jospin. Partito Radicale Nonviolento.
  23. Web site: Why Arab states are unmoved by plight of Hamas: most fear Muslim militancy despite their dislike of Israel. Tim. Butcher. 17 January 2009. The Daily Telegraph.
  24. Web site: Mahmoud Abbas, l'espoir déchu. 9 January 2009. L'Express.
  25. Web site: Spring 2007. issuu. March 2007 .
  26. Web site: 'Post' columnist Asa-El wins B'nai B'rith journalism award - Israel News - Jerusalem Post . The Jerusalem Post . 26 April 2018 . 23 March 2019.
  27. News: To grow, the rich countries must have more babies. Amotz. Asa-El. MarketWatch.
  28. News: What the Swiss should have learned from Stanley Fischer . Amotz . Asa-El. MarketWatch.
  29. Web site: Scotland's independence would be economic, moral disaster . Amotz . Asa-El . MarketWatch.
  30. Web site: U.S. should be neutral on Ukraine. Amotz. Asa-El. MarketWatch.
  31. News: Waxman . Andrea . Israeli journalist Amotz Asa-El to visit Milwaukee . . 24 February 2006 . 5 July 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100603025147/http://www.jewishchronicle.org/article.php?article_id=5094 . 3 June 2010 .
  32. Web site: Le journaliste israélien Amotz Asa-El au Devoir - De l'utopie au pragmatisme. Le Devoir. 7 June 2005 .
  33. Web site: Shanghai: Asia and the Jewish World: A Global Leadership Conversation. Jewish Funders Network.
  34. Web site: Seminário Internacional de Jornalismo. Portal Nacional de Saúde :: Unimed do Brasil :: Eventos.
  35. Web site: Amotz Asa-El: On Israel. 17 March 2011. Radio New Zealand.
  36. News: Homes Away From Home. Jay. Lefkowitz. The Wall Street Journal. 17 March 2005.