Amotz Asa-El is a research fellow at Shalom Hartman Institute and the Jerusalem Post’s senior commentator. Author of the bestselling book The Jewish March of Folly (Yediot, 2019), his forthcoming book is The Last Jewish Frontier (Yediot).

Formerly the executive editor of the Jerusalem Post, Asa-El’s column “Middle Israel,” a unique attempt to present in English an Israeli view on anything, from politics and foreign affairs to culture and faith, has been running on Jpost.com since the Internet’s inception in 1995, and is thus one of the world’s most veteran online opinion columns.

Author of The Diaspora and the Lost Tribes of Israel (Universe, 2004), a geographic history of the Jews, and editor of the Hartman Institute’s Hebrew anthology Israel and the Jewish World (Carmel, 2020), Asa-El’s five-essay series in the Jerusalem Report about the future of the Jewish people won the B’nai Brith Journalism Award.