Amotz Asa-El

Bestselling author, Hartman Institute Fellow and award-winning journalist Amotz Asa-El is the Jerusalem Post's senior commentator and former Executive Editor

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Bestselling author, Hartman Institute Fellow and award-winning journalist Amotz Asa-El is the Jerusalem Post's senior columnist and former executive editor. Asa-El's Hebrew bestseller "The Jewish March of Folly," (Yediot, 2019), is a critical history of the Jewish people's leadership from antiquity to modernity. He holds graduate degrees from Columbia, Brandeis, and Hebrew Universities.

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The Jewish March of Folly

Based on the speaker's Hebrew bestseller, a presentation on the battles, causes, and fateful results of ancient Israel's forgotten civil wars

Israel's Economic Miracle and its Jewish Roots

The story of Israel's unsung transition from socialism to capitalism, attributing its success to the Jewish people's historic experience and values

From Leper to Neighbor: Israel’s Place in the Middle East

Faced with an ongoing assault on its legitimacy, Israel is often seen as isolated abroad and shunned in its own neighborhood. This lecture refutes this impression, showing how Israel's acceptance is expanding steadily on multiple plains

The International Media Crisis: A Jewish Perspective and Solution

Journalism is facing a historic crisis -- commercially, professionally, and socially. Arguing that journalism was in a sense pioneered by the prophets, this lecture marks the media's salvation as a Jewish goal, and offers a Jewish path to its reinvention

Israel and the Ukraine War: Challenges, Risks, and Opportunities

The military, diplomatic and Jewish repercussions of the century's most dangerous conflict

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Books

Diaspora and the Lost Tribes of Israel

2004

Universe

The Jewish March of Folly

How Prophet, King, and Sage...

2019

Yediot Ahronot Books

Articles

Jerusalem Post 1 September, 2020:

Qasem Suleimani, 1957-2020

The Jerusalem Report 30 April, 2018:

Israel and Cold War II

The Jerusalem Post 26 April, 2018:

Amotz Asa-El wins Bnai Brith Journalism Award

The Jerusalem Post 11 November, 2017:

Was the Bolshevik Revolution a Jewish Plot?

Politico 23 September, 2016:

Israel, the Switzerland of the Middle East

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