Amotz Asa-El is a research fellow at Shalom Hartman Institute and senior commentator at the Jerusalem Post  as well as senior writer at the Jerusalem Report. He is author of the bestselling book The Jewish March of Folly (Yediot, 2019).

Author of  The Diaspora and the Lost Tribes of Israel (Universe, 2004) 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.